How better to end the day than with some ichthyological flatulence? Thanks to an undersea robot, we’ve recorded some fish off the coast of Florida producing some previously unknown sounds. And the ...

No matter what else you see today, this is certain to be the best video about herring farts. Everything you need to know about this NatGeo clip can be gleaned from the YouTube page: Herring have a ...

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.

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You might think that the middle of the Pacific Ocean would be a fairly quiet place but a loud hum or buzz coming from under the water has been puzzling scientists for years. Now they think they've ...

Can you imagine if humans used flatulence as a form of communication? Yikes. We don't want to picture it, either. But apparently some types of herring do pass gas to "speak" to each other without ...

A bit of a frenzy over fish farts may end up helping save Lake Simcoe. And that is definitely the intent behind the new children’s book Do Fish Fart? launched during the SPLASH water festival’s Beach ...

You might think that the middle of the Pacific Ocean would be a fairly quiet place but a loud hum or buzz coming from under the water has been puzzling scientists for years. Now they think they've ...