🦎
American alligator
Alligator mississippiensis
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
5 clips name both of them
4.8 million views between them.
American alligator outweighs Nile crocodile 1.6× — 150 kg against 94.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
150 kg
🦎 American alligator · AnAge
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
Body length
4.6 m
🦎 American alligator · ReptTraits
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
Top speed
no figure yet
🦎 American alligator
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
Bite force
no figure yet
🦎 American alligator
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
Maximum lifespan
77 yr
🦎 American alligator · AnAge
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · 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 Sauria (order), home to 32,042 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.