🐾
Humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
One clip names both of them
4,255 views between them.
Humpback whale outweighs Sharks 5.6× — 30,000 kg against 5,366 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
30,000 kg
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
Body length
14 m
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
Maximum lifespan
95 yr
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
46 yr
🦈 Sharks · group average
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 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.