🦈
Great hammerhead
Sphyrna mokarran
Sharks & rays · Critically endangered
vs
🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
One clip names both of them
163 views between them.
Sharks outweigh Great hammerhead 12× — 5,366 kg against 450 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
450 kg
🦈 Great hammerhead · FishBase
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
Body length
3.7 m
🦈 Great hammerhead · FishBase
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🦈 Great hammerhead · FishBase
46 yr
🦈 Sharks · 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 Elasmobranchii (subclass), home to 1,595 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.