🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
vs
🐋
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Marine mammals · Endangered
One clip names both of them
86,783 views between them.
Blue whale outweighs Sharks 28× — 149,000 kg against 5,366 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
149,000 kg
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Body length
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
30 m
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
46 yr
🦈 Sharks · group average
110 yr
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
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.