🦫
Canadian beaver
Castor canadensis
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
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Leatherback turtle outweighs Canadian beaver 21× — 420 kg against 19.9 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
20 kg
🦫 Canadian beaver · COMBINE
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Body length
0.78 m
🦫 Canadian beaver · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
23 yr
🦫 Canadian beaver · COMBINE
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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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.