One clip names both of them

3.3 million views between them.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

272 kg

🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase

no figure yet

🕷️ Goliath birdeater

Body length

3 m

🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase

0.11 m

🕷️ Goliath birdeater

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.