🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🦎
Komodo dragon
Varanus komodoensis
Reptiles · Endangered
One clip names both of them
1,082 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
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
87 kg
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
Body length
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
Top speed
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
Bite force
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
149 N
🦎 Komodo dragon
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
62 yr
🦎 Komodo dragon · 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.