World’s oldest whale song recording from 1949 rediscovered: Early humpback audio reveals quiet oceans of the past |
Researchers have discovered the oldest known audio recording of a whale song, made in 1949 off the coast of Bermuda. As reported by Associated Press, the recording features a humpback whale and was recovered during the digitisation of archival material at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. The audio was originally captured…