🐬
Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
26 clips name both of them
13 million views between them.
Sharks outweigh Common bottlenose dolphin 23× — 5,366 kg against 230 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
230 kg
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
Body length
3.63 m
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
Maximum lifespan
53 yr
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
46 yr
🦈 Sharks · group average
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 Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.