🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
7 clips name both of them
12 million views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Human 3.9× — 241 kg against 62 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Brown bear
1.20 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).