🦘
Red kangaroo
Macropus rufus
Marsupials · Least concern
vs
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Eurasian otter
Lutra lutra
Carnivores · Near threatened
10 clips name both of them
534,145 views between them.
Red kangaroo outweighs Eurasian otter 4.6× — 35.7 kg against 7.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
36 kg
🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE
7.81 kg
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Body length
1.6 m
🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE
0.75 m
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE
22 yr
🦦 Eurasian otter · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 158 million years ago.
Estimates range from 156 to 166 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).