🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦬
American bison
Bison bison
Mammals · Near threatened
5 clips name both of them
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American bison outweighs Brown bear 2.6× — 625 kg against 241 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Brown bear
1.20 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
American bison
1.66 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
625 kg
🦬 American bison · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
1.66 m
🦬 American bison
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
2.9 m
🦬 American bison · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
52 km/h
🦬 American bison
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦬 American bison
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
33 yr
🦬 American bison · COMBINE
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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).