🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐨
Koala
Phascolarctos cinereus
Marsupials · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
2.6 million views between them.
Human outweighs Koala 11× — 62 kg against 5.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
5.65 kg
🐨 Koala · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
0.85 m
🐨 Koala · COMBINE
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐨 Koala
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐨 Koala
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
22 yr
🐨 Koala · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 158 million years ago.
Estimates range from 156 to 166 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).