🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🦈
Tiger shark
Galeocerdo cuvier
Sharks & rays · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
246 views between them.
Cow outweighs Tiger shark 1.7× — 750 kg against 444 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
444 kg
🦈 Tiger shark · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
no figure yet
🦈 Tiger shark
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
5 m
🦈 Tiger shark · FishBase
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
50 yr
🦈 Tiger shark · 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.