Are you ready to rock the new year? Today is Old Rock Day, a day for celebrating and learning about old rocks and fossils. Rocks are common and few of us take the time to consider how amazing they are. But forged in volcanoes or molded by millennia of pressure, these solid masses of minerals hold the key to understanding how our planet formed. Rocks can also contain fossils, the remnants of long-extinct organisms, which give scientists clues about what creatures and plants have lived on Earth during its 4.5-billion-year history.
Moeraki Boulders, South Island, New Zealand
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Maya site of Copán
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Lake Bled, Slovenia
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The Lena Delta Wildlife Reserve in Siberia, Russia
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World Turtle Day
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Seceda, Dolomites, South Tyrol, Italy
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Feeling lazy? Today s your day.
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Wake up, it s Darwin Day
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Purple crocus flowers, Seven Rila Lakes, Bulgaria
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In search of roadside attractions on ‘America’s Highway’
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Step into the dark
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Gifford Pinchot National Forest
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Chicagohenge
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Lights, camera, Sundance
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Our Lady of the Rocks
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World Water Day
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Wild scene on the Merced River
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The Sky Over Nine Columns in Venice, Italy
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Ring-tailed lemur
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Spring comes to Glacier National Park
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Paradise, found
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Satellite image of sand and seaweed in the Bahamas
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The globe skimmers return
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Oloupena Falls, island of Molokai, Hawaii
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A tree amid the Tetons
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Al-Khazneh in Petra, Jordan
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Take the Stairs Day
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Groundhog Day
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Honoring some real heroes of World War II
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Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
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