🐙
Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
vs
🦦
Eurasian otter
Lutra lutra
Carnivores · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
722 views between them.
Giant Pacific octopus outweighs Eurasian otter 35× — 272 kg against 7.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
7.81 kg
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Body length
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
0.75 m
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus
22 yr
🦦 Eurasian otter · 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.