One clip names both of them

491,386 views between them.

Coyote outweighs House mouse 540× — 11.1 kg against 0 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

11 kg

🐺 Coyote · COMBINE

0.02 kg

🐭 House mouse · COMBINE

Shoulder height

0.52 m

🐺 Coyote

no figure yet

🐭 House mouse

Body length

0.91 m

🐺 Coyote · COMBINE

0.1 m

🐭 House mouse · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

22 yr

🐺 Coyote · COMBINE

6 yr

🐭 House mouse · COMBINE

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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.

Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).