🐍
Inland taipan
Oxyuranus microlepidotus
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐙
Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
One clip names both of them
558,066 views between them.
Giant Pacific octopus outweighs Inland taipan 120× — 272 kg against 2.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2.29 kg
🐍 Inland taipan · ReptTraits
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
Body length
2.5 m
🐍 Inland taipan · ReptTraits
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
Maximum lifespan
18 yr
🐍 Inland taipan · ReptTraits
no figure yet
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus
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 Metazoa (kingdom), home to 1,490,245 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.