🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐨
Koala
Phascolarctos cinereus
Marsupials · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
345 views between them.
Nile crocodile outweighs Koala 17× — 94.2 kg against 5.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
5.65 kg
🐨 Koala · COMBINE
Body length
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
0.85 m
🐨 Koala · COMBINE
Top speed
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🐨 Koala
Bite force
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🐨 Koala
Maximum lifespan
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
22 yr
🐨 Koala · COMBINE
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.