🦎
Alligator snapping turtle
Macrochelys temminckii
Reptiles · Endangered
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
One clip names both of them
629 views between them.
Level on mass: Alligator snapping turtle 58.5 kg, Human 62 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
59 kg
🦎 Alligator snapping turtle · AnAge
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Top speed
no figure yet
🦎 Alligator snapping turtle
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🦎 Alligator snapping turtle
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
70 yr
🦎 Alligator snapping turtle · AnAge
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
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.