🐢
Green sea turtle
Chelonia mydas
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐟
Giant manta ray
Mobula birostris
Sharks & rays · Endangered
One clip names both of them
62 views between them.
Giant manta ray outweighs Green sea turtle 19× — 3,000 kg against 160 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🐢 Green sea turtle · AnAge
3,000 kg
🐟 Giant manta ray · FishBase
Body length
no figure yet
🐢 Green sea turtle
4.5 m
🐟 Giant manta ray · FishBase
Maximum lifespan
75 yr
🐢 Green sea turtle · AnAge
20 yr
🐟 Giant manta ray · FishBase
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.