Oldest Audio Recording

Oldest known whale recording could unlock mysteries of ocean

Oldest known whale recording could unlock mysteries of the ocean

A haunting whale song discovered on decades-old audio equipment could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate, according to researchers who say it’s the oldest such recording known.

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The world's oldest-known whale song recordings tell a story about the changing ocean

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Oldest Whale Recording Unlocks Secrets of Ocean Communication

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Researchers uncover 1949 whale recording, potentially unlocking mysteries of ocean: "Beautiful to listen to"

A haunting whale song discovered on decades-old audio equipment could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate, according to researchers who say it's the oldest such recording k...

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Scientists made a breakthrough in the study of whale sounds. Here's a look at the numbers

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Oldest-known whale song recording from 1949 – audio

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Woods Hole institution uncovers what’s believed to be the oldest recorded whale call

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

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Listen To The World’s Oldest Recording Of Whale Song From Nearly 80 Years Ago

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s ...

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Cape Cod researchers discover oldest known recording of whale

Researchers at a Cape Cod institute have discovered what they say is the earliest known audio recording of a whale. Archivists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth identified the recording of a humpback whale’s song from 1949, the ...

Scientific American

Listen to the oldest known recording of a whale

On March 7, 1949, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) were stationed on a boat called the R/V Atlantis that was sailing off the coast of Bermuda. They lowered a primitive underwater recording setup into the ocean, and a boxy ...

Smithsonian Magazine

Listen to What Archivists Believe to Be Oldest-Known Whale Recording

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. The date, 7 March, 1949,” says a male voice on a ...