🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
vs
🦭
Harbour seal
Phoca vitulina
Carnivores · Least concern
4 clips name both of them
6,515 views between them.
Sharks outweigh Harbour seal 57× — 5,366 kg against 94.3 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
94 kg
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
Body length
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
1.81 m
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
46 yr
🦈 Sharks · group average
48 yr
🦭 Harbour seal · 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.