🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
vs
🕷️
Goliath birdeater
Theraphosa blondi
Invertebrates
4 clips name both of them
813,711 views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
no figure yet
🕷️ Goliath birdeater
Body length
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
0.11 m
🕷️ Goliath birdeater
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐍 Snakes · group average
no figure yet
🕷️ Goliath birdeater
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 Metazoa (kingdom), home to 1,490,245 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.