🐬
Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
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Red kangaroo
Macropus rufus
Marsupials · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
1,194 views between them.
Common bottlenose dolphin outweighs Red kangaroo 6.4× — 230 kg against 35.7 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
230 kg
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
36 kg
🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE
Body length
3.63 m
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
1.6 m
🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
53 yr
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
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).