🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
vs
🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
One clip names both of them
12,252 views between them.
Sharks outweigh Snakes 69× — 5,366 kg against 77.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
Body length
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
Maximum lifespan
46 yr
🦈 Sharks · group average
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 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.