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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Hey, you two in the front!
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Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
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Installation art turns heads
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Celebrating Native American Heritage Day
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A notorious advocate for women
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State funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
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Isla del Pescado on the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
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The town of Pienza in Tuscany, Italy
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It s a ruff life
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Salmon migration in full swing
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Bukhansan National Park, South Korea
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Northern hawk-owl
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Labor Day
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Muniellos Nature Reserve
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