🐋
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Marine mammals · Endangered
vs
🦈
Whale shark
Rhincodon typus
Sharks & rays · Endangered
One clip names both of them
19,699 views between them.
Blue whale outweighs Whale shark 8.0× — 149,000 kg against 18,700 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
149,000 kg
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
18,700 kg
🦈 Whale shark · AnAge
Body length
30 m
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
10 m
🦈 Whale shark · FishBase
Maximum lifespan
110 yr
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
54 yr
🦈 Whale shark · 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.