One clip names both of them

1.5 million views between them.

Giant Pacific octopus outweighs Emperor penguin 8.1× — 272 kg against 33.6 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

272 kg

🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase

34 kg

🐧 Emperor penguin · AVONET

Body length

3 m

🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase

1.15 m

🐧 Emperor penguin · SeaLifeBase

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

Kamerára vett állatok

Igazi felvételek az oldal állatairól — ahogy vadásznak, ahogy harcolnak, és ahogy egyszerűen csak élnek.

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.