🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐋
Orca
Orcinus orca
Marine mammals · Data deficient
2 clips name both of them
148,604 views between them.
Orca outweighs Brown bear 18× — 4,300 kg against 241 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
4,300 kg
🐋 Orca · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐋 Orca
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
9.23 m
🐋 Orca · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐋 Orca
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐋 Orca
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
100 yr
🐋 Orca · 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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).