🐬
Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🐙
Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
One clip names both of them
327 views between them.
Giant Pacific octopus outweighs Common bottlenose dolphin 1.2× — 272 kg against 230 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
230 kg
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
Body length
3.63 m
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
Maximum lifespan
53 yr
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus
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 Metazoa (kingdom), home to 1,490,245 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.