One clip names both of them

5.8 million views between them.

Level on mass: Arctic fox 3.6 kg, Cat 3.9 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

3.6 kg

🦊 Arctic fox · COMBINE

3.9 kg

🐈 Cat · AnAge

Shoulder height

no figure yet

🦊 Arctic fox

0.26 m

🐈 Cat

Body length

0.62 m

🦊 Arctic fox · COMBINE

no figure yet

🐈 Cat

Maximum lifespan

16 yr

🦊 Arctic fox · COMBINE

30 yr

🐈 Cat · 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 Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 39 million years ago.

Estimates range from 32 to 45 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).