🦦
Eurasian otter
Lutra lutra
Carnivores · Near threatened
vs
🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
One clip names both of them
191,475 views between them.
Sharks outweigh Eurasian otter 690× — 5,366 kg against 7.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
7.81 kg
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
Body length
0.75 m
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
Maximum lifespan
22 yr
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
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 Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.