3 clips name both of them

6.3 million views between them.

Level on mass: Emu 34.1 kg, Red kangaroo 35.7 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

34 kg

🐦 Emu · AVONET

36 kg

🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE

Body length

no figure yet

🐦 Emu

1.6 m

🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

17 yr

🐦 Emu · AnAge

30 yr

🦘 Red kangaroo · 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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.

We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.