🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🦎
Komodo dragon
Varanus komodoensis
Reptiles · Endangered
One clip names both of them
707 views between them.
Komodo dragon outweighs Golden eagle 20× — 87 kg against 4.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
87 kg
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
Bite force
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
149 N
🦎 Komodo dragon
Maximum lifespan
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
62 yr
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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.