🐎
Horse
Equus ferus caballus
Mammals
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
5,469 views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Horse 1.4× — 420 kg against 300 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
300 kg
🐎 Horse · AnAge
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.61 m
🐎 Horse
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Top speed
64 km/h
🐎 Horse
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
57 yr
🐎 Horse · AnAge
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.