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
Today in History
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Heron lies the Salton Sea
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Tigh Mor Trossachs on Loch Achray, Scotland
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Meandering through Patagonia
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Commemorating the life of a famous railroad conductor
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International Moon Day
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Bridge of Hillsborough County
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Make your way up a picturesque passageway of Chefchaouen
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And the skies filled with bats…
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New Year’s Day in the land of the rising sun
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Belize Barrier Reef
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Cuban tody, Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, Cuba
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International Beaver Day
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Life in the slow lane
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A crush in Lavaux
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A young jaguar on a riverbank, Pantanal, Brazil
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A dreamy start to the Year of the Pig
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Aerial view of the Colorado River Delta in Mexico
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A dramatic view of Sicily
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Tour de France 2024 begins
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Starling murmuration over the ruins of Brightons West Pier, England
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A cutting-edge art gallery opens in Paris
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Go climb a tree
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Castle ruins on the island of Halki, Greece
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International Whale Shark Day
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Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland
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Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California
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Bear Hole Brook, Catskill Mountains, New York
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Wildebeest on the move
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