🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
19 clips name both of them
11 million views between them.
Sharks outweigh Human 86× — 5,366 kg against 62 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🦈 Sharks
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🦈 Sharks
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
46 yr
🦈 Sharks · group average
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 Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.