🐟
Wels catfish
Silurus glanis
Fish · Least concern
vs
🐍
Grass snake
Natrix natrix
Reptiles · Least concern
One clip names both of them
1,840 views between them.
Wels catfish outweighs Grass snake 1750× — 168 kg against 0.1 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
168 kg
🐟 Wels catfish · AnAge
0.1 kg
🐍 Grass snake · AnAge
Body length
2.73 m
🐟 Wels catfish · FishBase
2 m
🐍 Grass snake · ReptTraits
Maximum lifespan
60 yr
🐟 Wels catfish · AnAge
20 yr
🐍 Grass snake · 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 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.