🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐾
Minke whale
Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Marine mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
1,846 views between them.
Minke whale outweighs Human 120× — 7,500 kg against 62 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
7,500 kg
🐾 Minke whale · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
7.86 m
🐾 Minke whale · COMBINE
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐾 Minke whale
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐾 Minke whale
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
50 yr
🐾 Minke whale · 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).