🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦎
Marine iguana
Amblyrhynchus cristatus
Reptiles · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
1,584 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Marine iguana 110× — 241 kg against 2.2 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
2.23 kg
🦎 Marine iguana · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦎 Marine iguana
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
1.3 m
🦎 Marine iguana · SeaLifeBase
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦎 Marine iguana
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦎 Marine iguana
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
6.4 yr
🦎 Marine iguana · AnAge
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.