🦆
Black Swan
Cygnus atratus
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
48 views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Black Swan 75× — 420 kg against 5.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
5.62 kg
🦆 Black Swan · AVONET
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Maximum lifespan
25 yr
🦆 Black Swan · AnAge
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · 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.