🐬
Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🐟
Giant manta ray
Mobula birostris
Sharks & rays · Endangered
2 clips name both of them
1,294 views between them.
Giant manta ray outweighs Common bottlenose dolphin 13× — 3,000 kg against 230 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
230 kg
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
3,000 kg
🐟 Giant manta ray · FishBase
Body length
3.63 m
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
4.5 m
🐟 Giant manta ray · FishBase
Maximum lifespan
53 yr
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
20 yr
🐟 Giant manta ray · FishBase
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.