🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
One clip names both of them
20,059 views between them.
Sharks outweigh Nile crocodile 57× — 5,366 kg against 94.2 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
Body length
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
Top speed
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🦈 Sharks
Bite force
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🦈 Sharks
Maximum lifespan
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
46 yr
🦈 Sharks · group average
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 Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.