Listen To The Oldest Recorded Whale Song From 1949 @IFLScienceOfficial

Listen To The Oldest Recorded Whale Song From 1949 @IFLScienceOfficial

Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

Researchers and archvists for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have unearthed a recording made in 1949 which might be the earliest known audio of humpback whales.

Read more: iflscience.com/listen-to-the-worlds-oldest-recording-of-whale-song-from-nearly-80-years-ago-82631

Credit: Video by Luis Lamar, audio courtesy of
©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Listen To The Oldest Recorded Whale Song From 1949

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Listen To The Oldest Recorded Whale Song From 1949