🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐈
Eurasian lynx
Lynx lynx
Carnivores · Least concern
11 clips name both of them
7.7 million views between them.
Human outweighs Eurasian lynx 2.9× — 62 kg against 21.1 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Eurasian lynx
0.63 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
21 kg
🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🧍 Human
0.63 m
🐈 Eurasian lynx
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
1.08 m
🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐈 Eurasian lynx
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐈 Eurasian lynx
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
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.
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 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).