🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
27 clips name both of them
22 million views between them.
Lion outweighs Human 2.4× — 149 kg against 62 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Lion
1.15 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🧍 Human
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
30 yr
🦁 Lion · 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 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).