🐆
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Carnivores · Near threatened
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
151,819 views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Jaguar 5.2× — 420 kg against 81.2 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
81 kg
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.71 m
🐆 Jaguar
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Body length
1.59 m
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Bite force
1,014 N
🐆 Jaguar
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
28 yr
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
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.