🐍
Black mamba
Dendroaspis polylepis
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
58,164 views between them.
Black mamba outweighs Golden eagle 7.2× — 30.8 kg against 4.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
31 kg
🐍 Black mamba · AnAge
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
Body length
4.25 m
🐍 Black mamba · ReptTraits
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Maximum lifespan
26 yr
🐍 Black mamba · AnAge
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
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.