🐚
Peacock mantis shrimp
Odontodactylus scyllarus
Invertebrates
vs
🐙
Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
One clip names both of them
44 views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
no figure yet
🐚 Peacock mantis shrimp
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
Body length
0.17 m
🐚 Peacock mantis shrimp · SeaLifeBase
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
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 Metazoa (kingdom), home to 1,490,245 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.