🐾
Humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🐧
Emperor penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
Birds · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
15,620 views between them.
Humpback whale outweighs Emperor penguin 890× — 30,000 kg against 33.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
30,000 kg
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
34 kg
🐧 Emperor penguin · AVONET
Body length
14 m
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
1.15 m
🐧 Emperor penguin · SeaLifeBase
Maximum lifespan
95 yr
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐧 Emperor penguin
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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このサイトに登場する動物の実際の映像——狩り、けんか、そしてふだんの暮らしぶりまでそろっています。
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.