Question: why do we go wrinkerly in the bath when we are in there for to long but we do not go wrinkerly in the swimming pool from kimberley

Emma Ross answered on 24 Jun 2013:

We all have a layer of dead skin cells on the surface of our skin, and these absorb water much more easily than normal skin cells. As a result, when we stay in the bath for a long time, the swelling of these dead skins cells gives our skin a wrinkly appearance. An interesting fact is that scientist think that wrinkly skin may have helped our hunter-gatherer ancestors – the wrinkled skin gives a better grip and may have helped our ancestors uproot wet plants when foraging for food, or be more sure-footed in a slippery, wet environment.