🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
21 clips name both of them
29 million views between them.
Sharks outweigh Cow 7.2× — 5,366 kg against 750 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
no figure yet
🦈 Sharks
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
46 yr
🦈 Sharks · group average
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.