🦈
Basking shark
Cetorhinus maximus
Sharks & rays · Endangered
vs
🐾
Fin whale
Balaenoptera physalus
Marine mammals · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
47,020 views between them.
Fin whale outweighs Basking shark 18× — 38,800 kg against 2,200 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2,200 kg
🦈 Basking shark · AnAge
38,800 kg
🐾 Fin whale · COMBINE
Body length
7 m
🦈 Basking shark · FishBase
18 m
🐾 Fin whale · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
32 yr
🦈 Basking shark · AnAge
116 yr
🐾 Fin whale · COMBINE
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.