🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐟
Giant manta ray
Mobula birostris
Sharks & rays · Endangered
One clip names both of them
370 views between them.
Giant manta ray outweighs Golden eagle 710× — 3,000 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
3,000 kg
🐟 Giant manta ray · FishBase
Body length
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
4.5 m
🐟 Giant manta ray · FishBase
Maximum lifespan
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
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.