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Leopard seal
Hydrurga leptonyx
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐻
Bears
Ursidae
Carnivores
average across the group
One clip names both of them
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Leopard seal outweighs Bears 2.5× — 376 kg against 152 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
376 kg
🐾 Leopard seal · COMBINE
152 kg
🐻 Bears · group average
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐾 Leopard seal
0.92 m
🐻 Bears · group average
Body length
3.02 m
🐾 Leopard seal · COMBINE
1.75 m
🐻 Bears · group average
Top speed
no figure yet
🐾 Leopard seal
43 km/h
🐻 Bears · group average
Bite force
no figure yet
🐾 Leopard seal
1,436 N
🐻 Bears · group average
Maximum lifespan
26 yr
🐾 Leopard seal · COMBINE
40 yr
🐻 Bears · group average
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 Caniformia (suborder), home to 469 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.