🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🦘
Red kangaroo
Macropus rufus
Marsupials · Least concern
13 clips name both of them
98 million views between them.
Human outweighs Red kangaroo 1.7× — 62 kg against 35.7 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
36 kg
🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
1.6 m
🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🦘 Red kangaroo
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🦘 Red kangaroo
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
30 yr
🦘 Red kangaroo · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 158 million years ago.
Estimates range from 156 to 166 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).