🦈
Nurse shark
Ginglymostoma cirratum
Sharks & rays · Vulnerable
vs
🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
One clip names both of them
1,332 views between them.
Sharks outweigh Nurse shark 89× — 5,366 kg against 60.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
60 kg
🦈 Nurse shark · AnAge
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
Body length
3.04 m
🦈 Nurse shark · FishBase
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
Maximum lifespan
25 yr
🦈 Nurse shark · AnAge
46 yr
🦈 Sharks · 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 Elasmobranchii (subclass), home to 1,595 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.