🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🪲
Mealworm
Tenebrio molitor
Arthropods
One clip names both of them
502 views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
no figure yet
🪲 Mealworm
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🪲 Mealworm
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🪲 Mealworm
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
no figure yet
🪲 Mealworm
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 Metazoa (kingdom), home to 1,490,245 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.