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 ...

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 ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Who farted? It’s an age old question, though asking who dealt it rarely yields a straightforward answer. But thanks to the best-selling work of a Virginia Tech researcher and ...

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, ...

Grizzly bears, dogs, and even cockroaches fart. Do sea anemones? Nope. As for spiders, no one knows. Daniella Rabaiotti and Nick Caruso’s new book, Does It Fart?, is illustrated by Ethan Kocak and ...

You've probably wondered about this before -- maybe you just don't want to admit it -- but which animals have the ability to fart? Fortunately, a group of scientists have joined together to answer ...

Did you know that cockroaches let off tiny little farts? Thanks to a new book by British zoologist Daniella Rabaiotti and her American co-author Nick Caruso, you do now. Does It Fart? has just been ...

Every other Friday on Morning Edition, Outside/In host Sam Evans-Brown tackles a question from a listener. Sarah from South Carolina Asks: “My husband and I were discussing the very interesting topic ...

It all began with a teenager’s typical and seemingly inconsequential question that stumped a dedicated zoologist: “Do snakes fart?” (The answer, by the way, is mostly yes. But we’ll get to that and ...