🐾
Beluga whale
Delphinapterus leucas
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🐧
Emperor penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
Birds · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
2,148 views between them.
Beluga whale outweighs Emperor penguin 41× — 1,380 kg against 33.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
1,380 kg
🐾 Beluga whale · COMBINE
34 kg
🐧 Emperor penguin · AVONET
Body length
4.3 m
🐾 Beluga whale · SeaLifeBase
1.15 m
🐧 Emperor penguin · SeaLifeBase
Maximum lifespan
40 yr
🐾 Beluga whale · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐧 Emperor penguin
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 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.