🐢
Loggerhead sea turtle
Caretta caretta
Reptiles · Vulnerable
vs
🦈
Nurse shark
Ginglymostoma cirratum
Sharks & rays · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
46,009 views between them.
Loggerhead sea turtle outweighs Nurse shark 2.6× — 157 kg against 60.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
157 kg
🐢 Loggerhead sea turtle · AnAge
60 kg
🦈 Nurse shark · AnAge
Body length
no figure yet
🐢 Loggerhead sea turtle
3.04 m
🦈 Nurse shark · FishBase
Maximum lifespan
77 yr
🐢 Loggerhead sea turtle · AnAge
25 yr
🦈 Nurse shark · AnAge
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 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.