One clip names both of them

844 views between them.

White-tailed deer outweighs Eurasian lynx 3.1× — 65.3 kg against 21.1 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

21 kg

🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE

65 kg

🐃 White-tailed deer · COMBINE

Shoulder height

0.63 m

🐈 Eurasian lynx

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🐃 White-tailed deer

Body length

1.08 m

🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE

1.81 m

🐃 White-tailed deer · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

27 yr

🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE

23 yr

🐃 White-tailed deer · COMBINE

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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.

Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).