🪳
American cockroach
Periplaneta americana
Arthropods
vs
🦎
Komodo dragon
Varanus komodoensis
Reptiles · Endangered
One clip names both of them
1,973 views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
no figure yet
🪳 American cockroach
87 kg
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
Bite force
no figure yet
🪳 American cockroach
149 N
🦎 Komodo dragon
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🪳 American cockroach
62 yr
🦎 Komodo dragon · 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.