One clip names both of them

1.9 million views between them.

Level on mass: Dog 40 kg, Red kangaroo 35.7 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

40 kg

🐕 Dog · AnAge

36 kg

🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE

Body length

no figure yet

🐕 Dog

1.6 m

🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

27 yr

🐕 Dog · AnAge

30 yr

🦘 Red kangaroo · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 158 million years ago.

Estimates range from 156 to 166 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).