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Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
vs
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Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
12,023 views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Giant Pacific octopus 1.5× — 420 kg against 272 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Body length
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
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.