🐾
Humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
225,107 views between them.
Humpback whale outweighs Leatherback turtle 71× — 30,000 kg against 420 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
30,000 kg
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Body length
14 m
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
95 yr
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
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 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.