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Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
vs
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Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
12,023 views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Giant Pacific octopus 1.5× — 420 kg against 272 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Body length
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
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.