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Loggerhead sea turtle
Caretta caretta
Reptiles · Vulnerable
vs
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Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
6 clips name both of them
8,501 views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Loggerhead sea turtle 2.7× — 420 kg against 157 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
157 kg
🐢 Loggerhead sea turtle · AnAge
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Maximum lifespan
77 yr
🐢 Loggerhead sea turtle · AnAge
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · 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 Chelonioidea (superfamily), home to 23 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.