🐾
Humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🐧
Emperor penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
Birds · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
15,620 views between them.
Humpback whale outweighs Emperor penguin 890× — 30,000 kg against 33.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
30,000 kg
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
34 kg
🐧 Emperor penguin · AVONET
Body length
14 m
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
1.15 m
🐧 Emperor penguin · SeaLifeBase
Maximum lifespan
95 yr
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐧 Emperor penguin
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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.