🐕
Dog
Canis familiaris
Carnivores
vs
🐨
Koala
Phascolarctos cinereus
Marsupials · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
55 views between them.
Dog outweighs Koala 7.1× — 40 kg against 5.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
40 kg
🐕 Dog · AnAge
5.65 kg
🐨 Koala · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
0.85 m
🐨 Koala · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐕 Dog · AnAge
22 yr
🐨 Koala · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Les animaux pris sur le vif
De vraies images des animaux de ce site — à la chasse, au combat, ou vaquant simplement à leurs occupations.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 158 million years ago.
Estimates range from 156 to 166 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).