4 clips name both of them

174,330 views between them.

Blue whale outweighs Dog 3730× — 149,000 kg against 40 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

40 kg

🐕 Dog · AnAge

149,000 kg

🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE

Body length

no figure yet

🐕 Dog

30 m

🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

27 yr

🐕 Dog · AnAge

110 yr

🐋 Blue whale · 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).