One clip names both of them

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Cat outweighs Eurasian Red Squirrel 12× — 3.9 kg against 0.3 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

3.9 kg

🐈 Cat · AnAge

0.33 kg

🐿️ Eurasian Red Squirrel · COMBINE

Shoulder height

0.26 m

🐈 Cat

no figure yet

🐿️ Eurasian Red Squirrel

Body length

no figure yet

🐈 Cat

0.21 m

🐿️ Eurasian Red Squirrel · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

30 yr

🐈 Cat · AnAge

15 yr

🐿️ Eurasian Red Squirrel · COMBINE

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

Animals caught on camera

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Shared ancestry

The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.

Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).