🦎
Green iguana
Iguana iguana
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
2 clips name both of them
1.5 million views between them.
Snakes outweigh Green iguana 51× — 77.5 kg against 1.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
1.53 kg
🦎 Green iguana · AnAge
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
Body length
no figure yet
🦎 Green iguana
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🦎 Green iguana · AnAge
27 yr
🐍 Snakes · group average
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 Squamata (order), home to 11,762 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.