🐸
Goliath frog
Conraua goliath
Amphibians · Endangered
the videos just say “frog”
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
2,721 views between them.
Lion outweighs Goliath frog 46× — 149 kg against 3.3 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.25 kg
🐸 Goliath frog · AmphiBIO
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐸 Goliath frog
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
0.32 m
🐸 Goliath frog · AmphiBIO
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐸 Goliath frog
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
no figure yet
🐸 Goliath frog
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
5.9 yr
🐸 Goliath frog · AnAge
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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.