🦀
Japanese spider crab
Macrocheira kaempferi
Invertebrates
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
5 clips name both of them
753 views between them.
Human outweighs Japanese spider crab 4.6× — 62 kg against 13.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
14 kg
🦀 Japanese spider crab · SeaLifeBase
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Top speed
no figure yet
🦀 Japanese spider crab
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🦀 Japanese spider crab
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🦀 Japanese spider crab
123 yr
🧍 Human · 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 Metazoa (kingdom), home to 1,490,245 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.