Today we’re talking about Dr. Ross Geller, the best friend from NBC’s hit 1990s sitcom. Ross is probably the world’s best-known palaeontologist, except it’s not clear if he specializes in dinosaurs or Pleistocene mammals. And sometimes he seems to be doing palaeoanthropology… or geology. Anyway, we’re not on a break, so prepare to pivot and achieve a state of true unagi, because we have 18 pages of notes for this episode—front and back!

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In this episode:

Ross Palaeontology YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4rnE_UsfHM&list=PLzzOAyef3Dyo8xLTGP_E2aW_yZhA3PkXf

Museums in Friends Blog: https://museumsinfriends.wordpress.com

“Mastodon” means “breast tooth”: https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/mammoth-mastodon-differences

Chambers and McCahey (2024) 1990s dinomania: Public and popular cultures of palaeontology from Jurassic Park to Friends: https://doi.org/10.1177/03080188241233121

Robert Bakker and the “Dinosaur Renaissance”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_renaissance

Whom should we really call a “doctor”? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5973890/

T. rex and the Crater of Doom (1997) by Walter Alvarez: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691169668/t-rex-and-the-crater-of-doom

Bruce Trigger Warning: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/5081017-bruce-trigger-warning?store_id=145043

Real palaeontologist Dr. David Schwimmer: https://www.columbusstate.edu/profiles/schwimmer-david

Is it this Ted Rigby? http://rienco.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Ted-Rigby-CV-Updated-Sep-2015.pdf

David Schwimmer didn’t steal beer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2pDsCk01F4

The Felidae of Rancho La Brea (1932) by John Merriam and Chester Stock: https://archive.org/details/felidofranchol4221932merr/page/12/mode/2up

John C. Merriam, Palaeontologist: https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/about-ucmp/history-of-ucmp/john-c-merriam/

Ross Barnett on Ross Geller: https://twilightbeasts.org/2014/05/13/the-one-with-the-sabretooth/comment-page-1/

Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-06ki92PyVY

What is Chandler’s Job? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIpA9j1TVYo