🦤
Dodo
Raphus cucullatus
Birds · Extinct
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
One clip names both of them
2.8 million views between them.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Dodo
0.70 m
full standing height · measured standing
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
no figure yet
🦤 Dodo
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Top speed
no figure yet
🦤 Dodo
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🦤 Dodo
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🦤 Dodo
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
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 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.