🎐
Box jellyfish
Chironex fleckeri
Invertebrates
vs
🦘
Red kangaroo
Macropus rufus
Marsupials · Least concern
One clip names both of them
2.9 million views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
no figure yet
🎐 Box jellyfish
36 kg
🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🎐 Box jellyfish
1.6 m
🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🎐 Box jellyfish
30 yr
🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE
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.