🐍
Milk snake
Lampropeltis triangulum
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
One clip names both of them
1,533 views between them.
Snakes outweigh Milk snake 82× — 77.5 kg against 0.9 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.95 kg
🐍 Milk snake · AnAge
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
Body length
2 m
🐍 Milk snake · ReptTraits
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
Maximum lifespan
23 yr
🐍 Milk snake · AnAge
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 Squamata (order), home to 11,762 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.