🦎
Komodo dragon
Varanus komodoensis
Reptiles · Endangered
vs
🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
One clip names both of them
2,488 views between them.
Level on mass: Komodo dragon 87 kg, Snakes 77.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
87 kg
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
Body length
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
Bite force
149 N
🦎 Komodo dragon
no figure yet
🐍 Snakes
Maximum lifespan
62 yr
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
27 yr
🐍 Snakes · 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 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.