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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To Sua Ocean Trench
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Mapping courage in the Seventh Ward
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Third Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge connecting Laos and Thailand
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Elephant Rock, Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia
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Schönbrunn Palace Park, Vienna, Austria
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Chestnut-headed bee-eaters, Bardia National Park, Nepal
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A showcase for future fame
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Sea Otter Awareness Week
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A predator at risk
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Blue-footed booby, Galápagos Islands
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Tower Bridge, London, England
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Train crossing the Tadami River in Japan
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Merry and bright
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A tribute to the ancestors
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