🦎
Komodo dragon
Varanus komodoensis
Reptiles · Endangered
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
15,543 views between them.
Lion outweighs Komodo dragon 1.7× — 149 kg against 87 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
87 kg
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
149 N
🦎 Komodo dragon
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
62 yr
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
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.