The Journal of Improbable Research announced this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners, including a team who researched mammals that breathe through their butts.

The world still holds many unanswered questions. But thanks to the efforts of the research teams awarded the IG Nobel Prize on Thursday, some of these questions – which you might not even have thought existed – now have answers.

The winners of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize for Physiology have found that all mammals can breathe through their backsides. While some may claim it’s an asinine joke, researchers wondered if humans with breathing problems could benefit from a blast of oxygen up the butt.

The IG Nobel Prize ceremony recognized imaginative achievements in science, medicine, and technology. Notable studies included mammals breathing through their anuses and coin flip probabilities. The event featured quirky elements such as accordion music and paper airplane deluges.

Mammals that can breathe through their backsides, homing pigeons that can guide missiles and sober worms that outpace drunk ones: these are some of the strange scientific discoveries that won this year's Ig Nobels,

Mad science award ceremony returns to MIT after four years online With less than a month to go before the Nobel Prizes are handed out for the most worthy scientific discoveries of the preceding year,

A team of Japanese scientists who discovered mammals can breathe through their butts — a procedure that could eventually help sick humans get oxygen  — received a top “honor” at a Nobel Prize