🦎
Asian water monitor
Varanus salvator
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
One clip names both of them
305,817 views between them.
Sharks outweigh Asian water monitor 1230× — 5,366 kg against 4.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.34 kg
🦎 Asian water monitor · AnAge
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
Body length
no figure yet
🦎 Asian water monitor
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
Maximum lifespan
16 yr
🦎 Asian water monitor · AnAge
46 yr
🦈 Sharks · group average
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 Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.