🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
3 clips name both of them
6,491 views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Snakes 5.4× — 420 kg against 77.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Body length
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐍 Snakes · group average
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.