🐟
Pike
Esox lucius
Fish · Least concern
vs
🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
One clip names both of them
218 views between them.
Sharks outweigh Pike 340× — 5,366 kg against 15.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
16 kg
🐟 Pike · AnAge
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
Body length
0.4 m
🐟 Pike · FishBase
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐟 Pike · AnAge
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.