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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Welcome to my neck of the woods
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Vila Franca Islet, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal
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Spot on for International Cat Day
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Dance of the egret
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World Theater Day
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Porthcawl Lighthouse, Wales, UK
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Lavender field, Hertfordshire, England
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Castle Square, Old Town, Warsaw, Poland
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Does it swim in slow motion too?
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Gaztelugatxe at sunset, Basque Country, Spain
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In the path of the pronghorn
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Bukhansan National Park, South Korea
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Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska
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On the hunt
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Basking in the glow
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The Cordillera de la Sal in the Cordillera Domeyko Range of Chile
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Cheese! We ll go somewhere where there s cheese!
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Great wildebeest migration at Mara River, Kenya
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World Art Day
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World Numbat Day
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Staircase of turquoise pools
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It’s Weihnachtsmarkt time!
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Taughannock Falls State Park
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Celebrating whales—and a whale of a tale
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And to think that I saw it in Cappadocia
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Arbor Day
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Terraced rice fields, Yuanyang County, China
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The Christmas Bird Count begins
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Fox kits
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The Unfinished Obelisk near Aswan, Egypt
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