One clip names both of them

2.1 million views between them.

Snakes outweigh Serval 6.5× — 77.5 kg against 12 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

12 kg

🐱 Serval · COMBINE

77 kg

🐍 Snakes · group average

Shoulder height

0.6 m

🐱 Serval

no figure yet

🐍 Snakes

Body length

0.92 m

🐱 Serval · COMBINE

3.9 m

🐍 Snakes · group average

Maximum lifespan

23 yr

🐱 Serval · COMBINE

27 yr

🐍 Snakes · 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 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.