and now people are remembering the now unbalanced Balance Rock. “It’s like a death in town,” said Town Historian Joanne Hubert. “It’s like someone died. I’m despondent. It’s horrible.

The photograph is authentic. According to reputable sources, the approximate age of the massive Kummakivi Balancing Rock is 11,500 years. However ... What's Undetermined We were not able to verify ...

Geologists put forward a much more likely cause for this balancing rock ... explanation for how the spheres came to be: They're concretions—little balls of rock that have grown around a core ...

For more than one million years, naturally occurring basalt rock spheres have been used by hominin species as a type of tool. Researchers have found these tools across Pleistocene Europe ...

Juhl, a 55-year-old Eagan resident, is a rock balancer, part of a coterie of people around the world who spend their free time seemingly able to defy gravity by precariously balancing rocks atop ...

REPORTER: THAT'S RIGHT. FOR THOUSANDS -- THOUSANDS OF YEARS, THE FIVE-TON ROCK LEANING ON ITS SIDE WAS A BALANCING BOULDER ALONG ROUTE 16. A LANDS MARK IN THE TOWN OF HOLSTON SINCE A GLACIER ...

Similar geological formations are found also on Earth. So-called balancing rocks touch the underground with only a tiny fraction of their surface and often look as if they may tilt or topple over ...

However, balanced rock creations are very fragile and temporary so Mikuni decided to start filming his works to transform them in “eternal portraits” that people can appreciate this art.

On a recent trip to visit the balancing rock at Orris Falls in South Berwick (see Great Works Regional Land Trust for information about trails), I noticed a carpet of tiny moss on one of the ...

Even though these rocks were documented in the mid-1800s, they weren’t well known until recently. To keep the site’s integrity, its location was left off maps to prevent damage from vandals ...