🦎
Komodo dragon
Varanus komodoensis
Reptiles · Endangered
vs
🐟
Giant manta ray
Mobula birostris
Sharks & rays · Endangered
One clip names both of them
744 views between them.
Giant manta ray outweighs Komodo dragon 34× — 3,000 kg against 87 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
87 kg
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
3,000 kg
🐟 Giant manta ray · FishBase
Body length
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
4.5 m
🐟 Giant manta ray · FishBase
Bite force
149 N
🦎 Komodo dragon
no figure yet
🐟 Giant manta ray
Maximum lifespan
62 yr
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
20 yr
🐟 Giant manta ray · FishBase
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 Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.