🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐻❄️
Polar bear
Ursus maritimus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
5 clips name both of them
94 million views between them.
Polar bear outweighs Human 6.0× — 372 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 (CC0).
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Polar bear
1.45 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
372 kg
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🧍 Human
1.45 m
🐻❄️ Polar bear
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
2.25 m
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
39 km/h
🐻❄️ Polar bear
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
2,121 N
🐻❄️ Polar bear
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
45 yr
🐻❄️ Polar bear · 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).