🐟
European seabass
Dicentrarchus labrax
Fish · Near threatened
vs
🐋
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Marine mammals · Endangered
One clip names both of them
4,284 views between them.
Blue whale outweighs European seabass 22580× — 149,000 kg against 6.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
6.6 kg
🐟 European seabass · AnAge
149,000 kg
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Body length
0.5 m
🐟 European seabass · FishBase
30 m
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
15 yr
🐟 European seabass · AnAge
110 yr
🐋 Blue whale · 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 Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.