🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
4,365 views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Human 6.8× — 420 kg against 62 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
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.