I get a lot of books in the mail. Other people around here get the latest by Dan Brown or Ted Kennedy’s memoir. I get “Why Fish Fart,” “Alien Hand Syndrome,” “The Gigantic Reader,” “Does Size Matter?” ...

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Biologists have linked a mysterious, underwater farting sound to bubbles coming out of a herring’s anus. No fish had been known to emit sound from its anus nor to be capable of producing such a ...

Who amongst us hasn’t wondered if a snake can fart? Dani Rabiotti, a quantitative ecologist, posed that question to Twitter in 2017. Her inquiry into animal flatulence went viral, of course. From ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. It all started with a simple question: "Do snakes fart?" Dani Rabaiotti had no idea. But the zoologist ...

A torpedo-shaped robot that bobbed up and down along the Florida coast to map sound production by red grouper and toadfish has detected what appears to be the unmistakable sound of herring passing gas ...

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Fish have plenty to say and we need to make more of an effort to listen to them and understand what they’re talking about, researchers say. The hums, grunts, squeals and even farts made by soniferous, ...