🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
One clip names both of them
12,121 views between them.
Nile crocodile outweighs Snakes 1.2× — 94.2 kg against 77.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
Body length
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
Top speed
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🐍 Snakes
Bite force
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🐍 Snakes
Maximum lifespan
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
27 yr
🐍 Snakes · 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 Sauria (order), home to 32,042 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.