🐧
Emperor penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
Birds · Near threatened
vs
🐋
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Marine mammals · Endangered
2 clips name both of them
193,431 views between them.
Blue whale outweighs Emperor penguin 4440× — 149,000 kg against 33.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
34 kg
🐧 Emperor penguin · AVONET
149,000 kg
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Body length
1.15 m
🐧 Emperor penguin · SeaLifeBase
30 m
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🐧 Emperor penguin
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.