🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
72 clips name both of them
225 million views between them.
Snakes outweigh Golden eagle 18× — 77.5 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
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
Body length
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
Maximum lifespan
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
27 yr
🐍 Snakes · 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 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.