🐧
Emperor penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
Birds · Near threatened
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
186 views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Emperor penguin 13× — 420 kg against 33.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
34 kg
🐧 Emperor penguin · AVONET
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Body length
1.15 m
🐧 Emperor penguin · SeaLifeBase
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🐧 Emperor penguin
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 Sauria (order), home to 32,042 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.