🐙
Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
vs
🦦
Eurasian otter
Lutra lutra
Carnivores · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
722 views between them.
Giant Pacific octopus outweighs Eurasian otter 35× — 272 kg against 7.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
7.81 kg
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Body length
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
0.75 m
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus
22 yr
🦦 Eurasian otter · 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.