The humpback whale song recording was taken near Bermuda in 1949. Scientists at Cape Cod-based WHOI found it in their archives in fall 2025.

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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 ...

A necropsy is expected to be performed on Thursday after a dead whale washed ashore in Newport Beach on Wednesday. According to Sophia Felger of the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, the large whale was ...