🐢
Loggerhead sea turtle
Caretta caretta
Reptiles · Vulnerable
vs
🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
One clip names both of them
52 views between them.
Sharks outweigh Loggerhead sea turtle 34× — 5,366 kg against 157 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
157 kg
🐢 Loggerhead sea turtle · AnAge
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
Body length
no figure yet
🐢 Loggerhead sea turtle
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
Maximum lifespan
77 yr
🐢 Loggerhead sea turtle · AnAge
46 yr
🦈 Sharks · 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 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.