🦎
Komodo dragon
Varanus komodoensis
Reptiles · Endangered
vs
🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
One clip names both of them
323,970 views between them.
Sharks outweigh Komodo dragon 62× — 5,366 kg against 87 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
87 kg
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
Body length
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
Bite force
149 N
🦎 Komodo dragon
no figure yet
🦈 Sharks
Maximum lifespan
62 yr
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
46 yr
🦈 Sharks · group average
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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 Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.