🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
4,365 views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Human 6.8× — 420 kg against 62 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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 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.