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 ...

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 ...

Herring fish have a secret nocturnal habit of squeezing gas bubbles out of their anal pores, producing distinctive noises like someone blowing raspberries, a quirky new study by Canadian and U.K.