🐟
Atlantic goliath grouper
Epinephelus itajara
Fish · Vulnerable
vs
🦈
Nurse shark
Ginglymostoma cirratum
Sharks & rays · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
582 views between them.
Atlantic goliath grouper outweighs Nurse shark 7.5× — 455 kg against 60.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
455 kg
🐟 Atlantic goliath grouper · FishBase
60 kg
🦈 Nurse shark · AnAge
Body length
1.5 m
🐟 Atlantic goliath grouper · FishBase
3.04 m
🦈 Nurse shark · FishBase
Maximum lifespan
37 yr
🐟 Atlantic goliath grouper · FishBase
25 yr
🦈 Nurse shark · 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 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.