🐦
Greater Roadrunner
Geococcyx californianus
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
One clip names both of them
677,774 views between them.
Snakes outweigh Greater Roadrunner 210× — 77.5 kg against 0.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.38 kg
🐦 Greater Roadrunner · AVONET
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
Body length
no figure yet
🐦 Greater Roadrunner
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
Maximum lifespan
9 yr
🐦 Greater Roadrunner · AnAge
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 Sauria (order), home to 32,042 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.