🐺
Coyote
Canis latrans
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦎
Komodo dragon
Varanus komodoensis
Reptiles · Endangered
One clip names both of them
855,874 views between them.
Komodo dragon outweighs Coyote 7.9× — 87 kg against 11.1 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
11 kg
🐺 Coyote · COMBINE
87 kg
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.52 m
🐺 Coyote
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
Body length
0.91 m
🐺 Coyote · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
Bite force
no figure yet
🐺 Coyote
149 N
🦎 Komodo dragon
Maximum lifespan
22 yr
🐺 Coyote · COMBINE
62 yr
🦎 Komodo dragon · 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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.