🐬
Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
153 views between them.
Common bottlenose dolphin outweighs Golden eagle 54× — 230 kg against 4.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
230 kg
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
Body length
3.63 m
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Maximum lifespan
53 yr
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.