🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
635 views between them.
Sharks outweigh Leatherback turtle 13× — 5,366 kg against 420 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Body length
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
46 yr
🦈 Sharks · group average
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
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.