🐕
Dog
Canis familiaris
Carnivores
vs
🐬
Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Marine mammals · Least concern
9 clips name both of them
472,059 views between them.
Common bottlenose dolphin outweighs Dog 5.8× — 230 kg against 40 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
40 kg
🐕 Dog · AnAge
230 kg
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
3.63 m
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐕 Dog · AnAge
53 yr
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).