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Wels catfish
Silurus glanis
Fish · Least concern
vs
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Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
One clip names both of them
2,932 views between them.
Wels catfish outweighs Human 2.7× — 168 kg against 62 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
168 kg
🐟 Wels catfish · AnAge
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Body length
2.73 m
🐟 Wels catfish · FishBase
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
no figure yet
🐟 Wels catfish
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🐟 Wels catfish
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
60 yr
🐟 Wels catfish · AnAge
123 yr
🧍 Human · 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.