🦎
Alligator snapping turtle
Macrochelys temminckii
Reptiles · Endangered
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
362 views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Alligator snapping turtle 7.2× — 420 kg against 58.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
59 kg
🦎 Alligator snapping turtle · AnAge
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Maximum lifespan
70 yr
🦎 Alligator snapping turtle · AnAge
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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 Cryptodira (suborder), home to 703 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.