🐊
Black caiman
Melanosuchus niger
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
One clip names both of them
345,446 views between them.
Level on mass: Black caiman 82 kg, Snakes 77.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
82 kg
🐊 Black caiman · AnAge
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
Body length
6 m
🐊 Black caiman · ReptTraits
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
Maximum lifespan
40 yr
🐊 Black caiman · AnAge
27 yr
🐍 Snakes · group average
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 Sauria (order), home to 32,042 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.