🦀
Japanese spider crab
Macrocheira kaempferi
Invertebrates
vs
🐬
Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Marine mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
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Common bottlenose dolphin outweighs Japanese spider crab 17× — 230 kg against 13.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
14 kg
🦀 Japanese spider crab · SeaLifeBase
230 kg
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🦀 Japanese spider crab
3.63 m
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🦀 Japanese spider crab
53 yr
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
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 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.