🐦
Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundus
Birds · Least concern
vs
🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
One clip names both of them
16,850 views between them.
Sharks outweigh Black-headed Gull 17540× — 5,366 kg against 0.3 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.31 kg
🐦 Black-headed Gull · AnAge
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
Body length
no figure yet
🐦 Black-headed Gull
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
Maximum lifespan
33 yr
🐦 Black-headed Gull · 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.