🦆
Black Swan
Cygnus atratus
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
48 views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Black Swan 75× — 420 kg against 5.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
5.62 kg
🦆 Black Swan · AVONET
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Maximum lifespan
25 yr
🦆 Black Swan · AnAge
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
חיות מול המצלמה
צילומים אמיתיים של החיות באתר – צדות, נלחמות, ופשוט ממשיכות בשלהן.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Sauria (order), home to 32,042 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.