🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐍
Eastern brown snake
Pseudonaja textilis
Reptiles · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
2.1 million views between them.
Golden eagle outweighs Eastern brown snake 2.5× — 4.2 kg against 1.7 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
1.68 kg
🐍 Eastern brown snake · ReptTraits
Body length
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
2.2 m
🐍 Eastern brown snake · ReptTraits
Maximum lifespan
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
15 yr
🐍 Eastern brown snake · ReptTraits
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 Sauria (order), home to 32,042 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.