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
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Celebrating 200 years of statehood
-
National Fossil Day
-
American bison, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
-
A city, a cliff, a canyon…and cheese
-
Moselle River loop near Kröv, Germany
-
Old Town of Rovinj, Croatia
-
The Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Italy
-
A leafy seadragon in the waters off Wool Bay, Australia
-
Salar de Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia
-
Sailing across the ice
-
Christmas Bird Count turns 125
-
International Lighthouse Weekend
-
Rideau Canal Skateway in Ottawa, Canada
-
International Sloth Day
-
A sizzling summit hides in the clouds
-
Celebrating whales—and a whale of a tale
-
Feeling lazy? Today s your day.
-
‘Stepping’ into Black History Month
-
Look before you leap
-
World Population Day
-
Blue-footed booby, Galápagos Islands
-
Petrified Forest National Park
-
Palace of Westminster, London, England
-
Three Natural Bridges, Wulong Karst, China
-
International Zebra Day
-
Ravens
-
Looking for peace on the precipice
-
Dhaka, Bangladesh
-
International Mountain Day
-
A Festivus for the rest of us
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

