🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
6.5 million views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Nile crocodile 4.5× — 420 kg against 94.2 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Body length
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Top speed
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Bite force
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
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.