🦎
Komodo dragon
Varanus komodoensis
Reptiles · Endangered
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
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Leatherback turtle outweighs Komodo dragon 4.8× — 420 kg against 87 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
87 kg
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Bite force
149 N
🦎 Komodo dragon
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
62 yr
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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.