🦀
Japanese spider crab
Macrocheira kaempferi
Invertebrates
vs
🐟
Giant manta ray
Mobula birostris
Sharks & rays · Endangered
One clip names both of them
33 million views between them.
Giant manta ray outweighs Japanese spider crab 220× — 3,000 kg against 13.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
14 kg
🦀 Japanese spider crab · SeaLifeBase
3,000 kg
🐟 Giant manta ray · FishBase
Body length
no figure yet
🦀 Japanese spider crab
4.5 m
🐟 Giant manta ray · FishBase
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🦀 Japanese spider crab
20 yr
🐟 Giant manta ray · FishBase
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.