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Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
vs
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Orca
Orcinus orca
Marine mammals · Data deficient
One clip names both of them
919 views between them.
Orca outweighs Giant Pacific octopus 16× — 4,300 kg against 272 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
4,300 kg
🐋 Orca · COMBINE
Body length
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
9.23 m
🐋 Orca · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus
100 yr
🐋 Orca · COMBINE
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 Metazoa (kingdom), home to 1,490,245 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.