🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
3 clips name both of them
1.2 million views between them.
Snakes outweigh Human 1.2× — 77.5 kg against 62 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐍 Snakes
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐍 Snakes
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
27 yr
🐍 Snakes · 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 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.