The song is that of a humpback whale and was recorded by scientists in March 1949 in Bermuda, researchers said.

Fred Sharpe has studied humpback whales in Alaska for more than three decades. He’s particularly interested in the sounds they make – and what they mean. Lately, the biologist has been focusing on the ...

Archivists and researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have unearthed a recording from the 1940s.

This incredible audio has just been discovered, and was recorded on 7 March 1949 by researchers aboard a ship near Bermuda.

Researchers on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, recently discovered the oldest known recordings of whale sounds and believe the ...

Researchers on Cape Cod, Mass., recently discovered the oldest known recordings of whale sounds and believe the discovery ...

A forgotten 75-year-old recording is now the oldest known whale song, capturing the haunting sound of an ocean that once ...

Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution quickly identified the recording as belong to a humpback whale. Aran Mooney / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution “Side one of record twelve.

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