🐙
Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
vs
🐋
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Marine mammals · Endangered
3 clips name both of them
1.5 million views between them.
Blue whale outweighs Giant Pacific octopus 550× — 149,000 kg against 272 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
149,000 kg
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Body length
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
30 m
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus
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 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.