🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🐋
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Marine mammals · Endangered
13 clips name both of them
4,021 views between them.
Blue whale outweighs Cow 200× — 149,000 kg against 750 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
149,000 kg
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
no figure yet
🐋 Blue whale
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
30 m
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
110 yr
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Artiodactyla (order), home to 848 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 46 million years ago.
Estimates range from 40 to 55 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).