🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
vs
🐋
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Marine mammals · Endangered
3 clips name both of them
124 views between them.
Blue whale outweighs Leatherback turtle 350× — 149,000 kg against 420 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
149,000 kg
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
30 m
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
110 yr
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.