🦈
Nurse shark
Ginglymostoma cirratum
Sharks & rays · Vulnerable
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
731 views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Nurse shark 7.0× — 420 kg against 60.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
60 kg
🦈 Nurse shark · AnAge
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Body length
3.04 m
🦈 Nurse shark · FishBase
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
25 yr
🦈 Nurse shark · AnAge
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
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 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.