🐙
Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
vs
🐋
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Marine mammals · Endangered
3 clips name both of them
1.5 million views between them.
Blue whale outweighs Giant Pacific octopus 550× — 149,000 kg against 272 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
149,000 kg
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Body length
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
30 m
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus
110 yr
🐋 Blue whale · 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.