🪳
American cockroach
Periplaneta americana
Arthropods
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
One clip names both of them
6,025 views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
no figure yet
🪳 American cockroach
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Top speed
no figure yet
🪳 American cockroach
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🪳 American cockroach
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🪳 American cockroach
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 Metazoa (kingdom), home to 1,490,245 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.