🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
4 clips name both of them
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Leatherback turtle outweighs Golden eagle 99× — 420 kg against 4.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Maximum lifespan
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animales captados por la cámara
Imágenes reales de los animales de este sitio: cazando, peleando y haciendo su vida.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Sauria (order), home to 32,042 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.