🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🦎
Komodo dragon
Varanus komodoensis
Reptiles · Endangered
3 clips name both of them
4.2 million views between them.
Red deer outweighs Komodo dragon 1.8× — 160 kg against 87 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
87 kg
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
Bite force
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
149 N
🦎 Komodo dragon
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
62 yr
🦎 Komodo dragon · 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 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.