🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🦎
Komodo dragon
Varanus komodoensis
Reptiles · Endangered
One clip names both of them
707 views between them.
Komodo dragon outweighs Golden eagle 20× — 87 kg against 4.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
87 kg
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
Bite force
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
149 N
🦎 Komodo dragon
Maximum lifespan
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
62 yr
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Sauria (order), home to 32,042 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.