🐍
Inland taipan
Oxyuranus microlepidotus
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐙
Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
One clip names both of them
558,066 views between them.
Giant Pacific octopus outweighs Inland taipan 120× — 272 kg against 2.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2.29 kg
🐍 Inland taipan · ReptTraits
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
Body length
2.5 m
🐍 Inland taipan · ReptTraits
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
Maximum lifespan
18 yr
🐍 Inland taipan · ReptTraits
no figure yet
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus
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 Metazoa (kingdom), home to 1,490,245 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.