🐙
Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
vs
🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
4 clips name both of them
11,883 views between them.
Sharks outweigh Giant Pacific octopus 20× — 5,366 kg against 272 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
Body length
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus
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 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.