🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🦎
Green iguana
Iguana iguana
Reptiles · Least concern
One clip names both of them
121 views between them.
Human outweighs Green iguana 41× — 62 kg against 1.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
1.53 kg
🦎 Green iguana · AnAge
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🦎 Green iguana
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🦎 Green iguana
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
20 yr
🦎 Green iguana · AnAge
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 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.