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Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
vs
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Emperor penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
Birds · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
1.5 million views between them.
Giant Pacific octopus outweighs Emperor penguin 8.1× — 272 kg against 33.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
34 kg
🐧 Emperor penguin · AVONET
Body length
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
1.15 m
🐧 Emperor penguin · SeaLifeBase
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.