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Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
vs
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Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
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Leatherback turtle outweighs Big cats 4.6× — 420 kg against 92 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Body length
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Top speed
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Bite force
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐆 Big cats · group average
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · 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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.