2 clips name both of them

19 million views between them.

Snakes outweigh Meerkat 100× — 77.5 kg against 0.8 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

0.78 kg

🐾 Meerkat · COMBINE

77 kg

🐍 Snakes · group average

Body length

0.32 m

🐾 Meerkat · COMBINE

3.9 m

🐍 Snakes · group average

Maximum lifespan

21 yr

🐾 Meerkat · COMBINE

27 yr

🐍 Snakes · 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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.

We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.