🐍
Golden lancehead
Bothrops insularis
Reptiles · Critically endangered
vs
🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
One clip names both of them
1,353 views between them.
Snakes outweigh Golden lancehead 92× — 77.5 kg against 0.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.84 kg
🐍 Golden lancehead · ReptTraits
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
Body length
1.18 m
🐍 Golden lancehead · ReptTraits
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🐍 Golden lancehead
27 yr
🐍 Snakes · group average
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 Squamata (order), home to 11,762 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.