🐧
Emperor penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
Birds · Near threatened
vs
🦭
Harbour seal
Phoca vitulina
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
16,579 views between them.
Harbour seal outweighs Emperor penguin 2.8× — 94.3 kg against 33.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
34 kg
🐧 Emperor penguin · AVONET
94 kg
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
Body length
1.15 m
🐧 Emperor penguin · SeaLifeBase
1.81 m
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🐧 Emperor penguin
48 yr
🦭 Harbour seal · 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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.