2 clips name both of them

200,612 views between them.

Eurasian badger outweighs Red fox 2.6× — 11.9 kg against 4.6 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

12 kg

🦡 Eurasian badger · COMBINE

4.58 kg

🦊 Red fox · COMBINE

Shoulder height

no figure yet

🦡 Eurasian badger

0.41 m

🦊 Red fox

Body length

0.8 m

🦡 Eurasian badger · COMBINE

0.63 m

🦊 Red fox · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

19 yr

🦡 Eurasian badger · COMBINE

21 yr

🦊 Red fox · 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 Caniformia (suborder), home to 469 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 33 million years ago.

Estimates range from 28 to 40 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).