🐟
Greenland shark
Somniosus microcephalus
Sharks & rays · Vulnerable
vs
🐻❄️
Polar bear
Ursus maritimus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
893 views between them.
Greenland shark outweighs Polar bear 3.0× — 1,100 kg against 372 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
1,100 kg
🐟 Greenland shark
372 kg
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐟 Greenland shark
1.45 m
🐻❄️ Polar bear
Body length
4.27 m
🐟 Greenland shark · FishBase
2.25 m
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐟 Greenland shark
39 km/h
🐻❄️ Polar bear
Bite force
no figure yet
🐟 Greenland shark
2,121 N
🐻❄️ Polar bear
Maximum lifespan
392 yr
🐟 Greenland shark · AnAge
45 yr
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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.