🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐿️
Eastern gray squirrel
Sciurus carolinensis
Mammals · Least concern
5 clips name both of them
60 million views between them.
Human outweighs Eastern gray squirrel 110× — 62 kg against 0.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
0.54 kg
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
0.32 m
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
24 yr
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · 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 Euarchontoglires (superorder), home to 4,379 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 76 million years ago.
Estimates range from 67 to 85 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).