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 ...

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?” ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Chock-full of anecdotes, the book is divided into ...

DULUTH, Minn. — Greg Bambenek remembers as a kid going out on the Mississippi River with his dad, putting out set lines for flathead catfish. In a rowboat, the two would set out 50 baits, all ...

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 ...

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 ...

All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Learn more.

Richard J. Krejsa, a professor emeritus of biology at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, knows fish. He knows their farts. And he knows when others feign to know but really do ...

The world’s largest migration may be responsible for the vexing hum of the oceans. The low-frequency melodic buzzing has puzzled scientists all over the world for years. Now, University of California ...