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Wels catfish
Silurus glanis
Fish · Least concern
vs
🐑
Sheep
Ovis aries
Mammals · Not evaluated
One clip names both of them
725 views between them.
Wels catfish outweighs Sheep 2.1× — 168 kg against 80 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
168 kg
🐟 Wels catfish · AnAge
80 kg
🐑 Sheep · AnAge
Body length
2.73 m
🐟 Wels catfish · FishBase
no figure yet
🐑 Sheep
Maximum lifespan
60 yr
🐟 Wels catfish · AnAge
23 yr
🐑 Sheep · 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.