🐍
Puff adder
Bitis arietans
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
149 views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Puff adder 180× — 420 kg against 2.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2.38 kg
🐍 Puff adder · AnAge
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Body length
1.85 m
🐍 Puff adder · ReptTraits
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
16 yr
🐍 Puff adder · AnAge
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.