🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐨
Koala
Phascolarctos cinereus
Marsupials · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
66 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Koala 43× — 241 kg against 5.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
5.65 kg
🐨 Koala · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐨 Koala
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
0.85 m
🐨 Koala · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐨 Koala
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐨 Koala
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
22 yr
🐨 Koala · COMBINE
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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 158 million years ago.
Estimates range from 156 to 166 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).