🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🐟
Giant manta ray
Mobula birostris
Sharks & rays · Endangered
One clip names both of them
50 views between them.
Giant manta ray outweighs Cow 4.0× — 3,000 kg against 750 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
3,000 kg
🐟 Giant manta ray · FishBase
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
no figure yet
🐟 Giant manta ray
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
4.5 m
🐟 Giant manta ray · FishBase
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
20 yr
🐟 Giant manta ray · FishBase
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.