🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
4 clips name both of them
1,631 views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Golden eagle 99× — 420 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
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Maximum lifespan
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
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.