Gordon Hull was walking with a group of UCLA volunteers in the Mojave Desert when they came to a steep, rocky surface covered in thousands of sketches. One of these drawings, a lone sheep, caught Hull's eye. Read more...

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Little Lake in Owens Valley, once used as a campground and trading post for multiple Native American tribes, has examples of rock art found by UCLA volunteers. (courtesy of Deidre Whitmore)

A faded blue arrow in the Geology Building points to a glass display case bearing a sign: "World's Oldest Fossils." The information behind the glass explains it all "“ the rock specimens are from Australia and date back 3.5 billion years. Read more...

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Professor J. William Schopf discovered some of the world’s oldest fossils.

On a typical day in the field, archaeology graduate student Anne Austin would wake up at 4 a.m. Read more...