🐟
Greenland shark
Somniosus microcephalus
Sharks & rays · Vulnerable
vs
🐻
Bears
Ursidae
Carnivores
average across the group
One clip names both of them
893 views between them.
Greenland shark outweighs Bears 7.2× — 1,100 kg against 152 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
1,100 kg
🐟 Greenland shark
152 kg
🐻 Bears · group average
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐟 Greenland shark
0.92 m
🐻 Bears · group average
Body length
4.27 m
🐟 Greenland shark · FishBase
1.75 m
🐻 Bears · group average
Top speed
no figure yet
🐟 Greenland shark
43 km/h
🐻 Bears · group average
Bite force
no figure yet
🐟 Greenland shark
1,436 N
🐻 Bears · group average
Maximum lifespan
392 yr
🐟 Greenland shark · AnAge
40 yr
🐻 Bears · group average
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 Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.