🦀
Japanese spider crab
Macrocheira kaempferi
Invertebrates
vs
🕷️
Goliath birdeater
Theraphosa blondi
Invertebrates
4 clips name both of them
852 views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
14 kg
🦀 Japanese spider crab · SeaLifeBase
no figure yet
🕷️ Goliath birdeater
Body length
no figure yet
🦀 Japanese spider crab
0.11 m
🕷️ Goliath birdeater
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 Arthropoda (phylum), home to 1,186,206 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.