🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐈
Eurasian lynx
Lynx lynx
Carnivores · Least concern
6 clips name both of them
8.1 million views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Eurasian lynx 11× — 241 kg against 21.1 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Brown bear
1.20 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Eurasian lynx
0.63 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
21 kg
🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
0.63 m
🐈 Eurasian lynx
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
1.08 m
🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐈 Eurasian lynx
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐈 Eurasian lynx
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
27 yr
🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE
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 Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 39 million years ago.
Estimates range from 32 to 45 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).