🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
8,123 views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Red deer 2.6× — 420 kg against 160 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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.