🐙
Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
vs
🕷️
Goliath birdeater
Theraphosa blondi
Invertebrates
One clip names both of them
3.3 million views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
no figure yet
🕷️ Goliath birdeater
Body length
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
0.11 m
🕷️ Goliath birdeater
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Metazoa (kingdom), home to 1,490,245 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.