🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
vs
🐋
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Marine mammals · Endangered
3 clips name both of them
124 views between them.
Blue whale outweighs Leatherback turtle 350× — 149,000 kg against 420 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
149,000 kg
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
30 m
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
110 yr
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
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.