🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐢
Loggerhead sea turtle
Caretta caretta
Reptiles · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
92 views between them.
Level on mass: Lion 149 kg, Loggerhead sea turtle 157 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
157 kg
🐢 Loggerhead sea turtle · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐢 Loggerhead sea turtle
Body length
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐢 Loggerhead sea turtle
Top speed
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐢 Loggerhead sea turtle
Bite force
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐢 Loggerhead sea turtle
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
77 yr
🐢 Loggerhead sea turtle · AnAge
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.