🐎
Horse
Equus ferus caballus
Mammals
vs
🐿️
Eastern gray squirrel
Sciurus carolinensis
Mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
101 views between them.
Horse outweighs Eastern gray squirrel 560× — 300 kg against 0.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
300 kg
🐎 Horse · AnAge
0.54 kg
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.61 m
🐎 Horse
no figure yet
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel
Body length
no figure yet
🐎 Horse
0.32 m
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE
Top speed
64 km/h
🐎 Horse
no figure yet
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel
Maximum lifespan
57 yr
🐎 Horse · AnAge
24 yr
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).