🐟
Wels catfish
Silurus glanis
Fish · Least concern
vs
🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
One clip names both of them
13,296 views between them.
Wels catfish outweighs Nile crocodile 1.8× — 168 kg against 94.2 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
168 kg
🐟 Wels catfish · AnAge
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
Body length
2.73 m
🐟 Wels catfish · FishBase
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
Top speed
no figure yet
🐟 Wels catfish
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
Bite force
no figure yet
🐟 Wels catfish
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
Maximum lifespan
60 yr
🐟 Wels catfish · AnAge
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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 Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.