🦭
Harbour seal
Phoca vitulina
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐋
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Marine mammals · Endangered
2 clips name both of them
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Blue whale outweighs Harbour seal 1580× — 149,000 kg against 94.3 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
94 kg
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
149,000 kg
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Body length
1.81 m
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
30 m
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
48 yr
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
110 yr
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
카메라에 담긴 동물들
이 사이트에 실린 동물들의 실제 영상 — 사냥하고, 싸우고, 그냥 하루를 살아가는 모습까지 담았어요.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.