🐢
Green sea turtle
Chelonia mydas
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
2 clips name both of them
175,313 views between them.
Sharks outweigh Green sea turtle 34× — 5,366 kg against 160 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🐢 Green sea turtle · AnAge
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
Body length
no figure yet
🐢 Green sea turtle
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
Maximum lifespan
75 yr
🐢 Green sea turtle · AnAge
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 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.