🦈
Goblin shark
Mitsukurina owstoni
Sharks & rays · Least concern
vs
🐾
Sperm whale
Physeter macrocephalus
Marine mammals · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
10 million views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
no figure yet
🦈 Goblin shark
10,100 kg
🐾 Sperm whale · COMBINE
Body length
2 m
🦈 Goblin shark · FishBase
11 m
🐾 Sperm whale · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🦈 Goblin shark
100 yr
🐾 Sperm whale · 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 Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.