Whale song gets a lot of interest, whether it's for conservation, like finding mates for lonely whales, or helping you sleep. We're using it to decode language and practice speaking to aliens; it's ...
Last year, Ashley Jester came across an unusual old recording. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED SCIENTIST: The date - 7 March 1949. (SOUNDBITE OF WHALE VOCALIZING) RASCOE: She's a ...
For decades, a thin plastic audio disc sat forgotten in an archive drawer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Recorded on March 7, 1949, near Bermuda, it had been labeled with vague notes ...
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 ...