🦈
Tiger shark
Galeocerdo cuvier
Sharks & rays · Near threatened
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
1,545 views between them.
Level on mass: Tiger shark 444 kg, Leatherback turtle 420 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
444 kg
🦈 Tiger shark · AnAge
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Body length
5 m
🦈 Tiger shark · FishBase
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🦈 Tiger shark · AnAge
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 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.