One clip names both of them

30,163 views between them.

Dog outweighs Brown-throated sloth 10× — 40 kg against 4 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

40 kg

🐕 Dog · AnAge

3.96 kg

🦥 Brown-throated sloth · COMBINE

Body length

no figure yet

🐕 Dog

0.75 m

🦥 Brown-throated sloth · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

27 yr

🐕 Dog · AnAge

27 yr

🦥 Brown-throated sloth · COMBINE · estimated

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 87 million years ago.

Estimates range from 78 to 117 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

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