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Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
7 clips name both of them
21,405 views between them.
Common bottlenose dolphin outweighs Human 3.7× — 230 kg against 62 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
230 kg
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Body length
3.63 m
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
no figure yet
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
53 yr
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
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).