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 ...

Many sea creatures are known for their distinctive sounds that scientists believe to be forms of communication between the animals. Dolphins click and whistle, whales "sing," and it seems herring also ...

Biologists who heard a strange underwater sound made a bizarre discovery when they linked the noise to bubbles coming out of a herring's anus. "It sounds just like a high-pitched raspberry," said one ...

Dani Rabiotti, a quantitative ecologist, posed that question to Twitter in 2017. Her inquiry into animal flatulence went viral, of course. From there, #doesitfart spread quickly (much like a, well, ...

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?” ...