One clip names both of them

54 views between them.

Black-tailed jackrabbit outweighs Eastern gray squirrel 4.3× — 2.3 kg against 0.5 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

2.32 kg

🐇 Black-tailed jackrabbit · COMBINE

0.54 kg

🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE

Body length

0.51 m

🐇 Black-tailed jackrabbit · COMBINE

0.32 m

🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

12 yr

🐇 Black-tailed jackrabbit · COMBINE

24 yr

🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

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Shared ancestry

The closest group they share is Euarchontoglires (superorder), home to 4,379 species.

We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.