🦀
Japanese spider crab
Macrocheira kaempferi
Invertebrates
vs
🐙
Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
27 million views between them.
Giant Pacific octopus outweighs Japanese spider crab 20× — 272 kg against 13.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
14 kg
🦀 Japanese spider crab · SeaLifeBase
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
Body length
no figure yet
🦀 Japanese spider crab
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
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 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.