🦭
Harbour seal
Phoca vitulina
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
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Leatherback turtle outweighs Harbour seal 4.5× — 420 kg against 94.3 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
94 kg
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Body length
1.81 m
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
48 yr
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
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 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.