🐬
Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🦭
Harbour seal
Phoca vitulina
Carnivores · Least concern
20 clips name both of them
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Common bottlenose dolphin outweighs Harbour seal 2.4× — 230 kg against 94.3 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
230 kg
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
94 kg
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
Body length
3.63 m
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
1.81 m
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
53 yr
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
48 yr
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.