🐕
Dog
Canis familiaris
Carnivores
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
40 clips name both of them
298 million views between them.
Human outweighs Dog 1.6× — 62 kg against 40 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
40 kg
🐕 Dog · AnAge
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Top speed
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐕 Dog · AnAge
123 yr
🧍 Human · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).