🦘
Red kangaroo
Macropus rufus
Marsupials · Least concern
vs
🦎
Green iguana
Iguana iguana
Reptiles · Least concern
One clip names both of them
2.3 million views between them.
Red kangaroo outweighs Green iguana 23× — 35.7 kg against 1.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
36 kg
🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE
1.53 kg
🦎 Green iguana · AnAge
Body length
1.6 m
🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦎 Green iguana
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE
20 yr
🦎 Green iguana · 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.