🐾
Humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
225,107 views between them.
Humpback whale outweighs Leatherback turtle 71× — 30,000 kg against 420 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
30,000 kg
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Body length
14 m
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
95 yr
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
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.