🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🦫
Platypus
Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Mammals · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
3.3 million views between them.
Elephant outweighs Platypus 3730× — 4,565 kg against 1.2 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
1.23 kg
🦫 Platypus · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🦫 Platypus
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
0.42 m
🦫 Platypus · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🦫 Platypus
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
23 yr
🦫 Platypus · COMBINE
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 Mammalia (class), home to 9,328 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 188 million years ago.
Estimates range from 166 to 215 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).