Riley Black: There's a bit in the book where basically I talk about mastodon farts, which seems like an odd thing to ... plates of keratin in their mouths that allow them to sieve their plankton food ...

It all started with a simple question: "Do snakes fart?" Zoologist and University College London PhD student Dani Rabaiotti had no idea. But she knew she could probably ask her scientist friends ...

Plankton are incredibly diverse and important beings even though they are some of the smallest ones on earth. They are found in our water and air, and they greatly contribute to the food chain.

Mullet school, bottom feed, are mostly vegetarian, jump from the water for seemingly no reason, and, now, are frequently observed skimming air and plankton on the water's surface. islander Photo: ...