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 ...

It all began with a teenager's typical and seemingly inconsequential question that stumped a dedicated zoologist: "Do snakes fart?" It all began with a teenager’s typical and seemingly inconsequential ...

The definitive field guide for animal flatulence is finally here. “Does it Fart?” (Hachette) is an illustrated book about the fart capabilities of the animal kingdom. In the tome, authors Dani ...

Scientists are embarking on the noblest of data-gathering missions, delivering us laypeople the animal information we all sorely wanted but were too timid to ask about. Which animals fart? The open, ...

Scientists around the world have teamed up to carry out one of mankind’s most important missions: compiling a spreadsheet that helpfully sorts animals based on whether or not they fart. Since you’ve ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Colleen Mercier normally doesn’t like clutter in her house, but seeing stacked boxes of ...

What’s the best way of getting the public to engage with science on social media? Talk about farting animals. That’s the thinking behind the hashtag #DoesItFart, and it appears to be working.

Farting. We all do it. Squeaky or silent, smelly or scentless, fueled by protein or by sparkling water, farts are the body's way of releasing gas that builds up in the digestive tract. Here's a ...