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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An ancient sailing tradition takes to the water
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Make your way up a picturesque passageway of Chefchaouen
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Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting
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Hippo family in Chobe National Park, Botswana
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We have liftoff!
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Happy New Year! (Again!)
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World Donkey Day
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Fog above the forest
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Masai giraffes in Amboseli National Park, Kenya
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Penguin Awareness Day
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Light show in the forest
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Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
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International Beaver Day
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National Park Week begins
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Haaga Rhododendron Park
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Gemsbok in Namibian sand dunes
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Birch trees, Drammen, Norway
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1, 1, 2, 3: It s Fibonacci Day!
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Sunbeams across Tartu County, Estonia
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Chilling out in the Arctic
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Milford Sound/Piopiotahi rainforest in New Zealand
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Ancient town of Sorano, Tuscany, Italy
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Presidents Day in America’s front yard
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Groundhog Day
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Tolkien Reading Day
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Merry Christmas!
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Spring awakens
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Celebrating 30 years of eye-opening images
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Gardens by the Bay nature park, Singapore
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Seasonal lights dazzle in Japan
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