One clip names both of them

55 views between them.

Dog outweighs Koala 7.1× — 40 kg against 5.6 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

40 kg

🐕 Dog · AnAge

5.65 kg

🐨 Koala · COMBINE

Body length

no figure yet

🐕 Dog

0.85 m

🐨 Koala · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

27 yr

🐕 Dog · AnAge

22 yr

🐨 Koala · COMBINE

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

Dieren voor de camera

Echte beelden van de dieren op deze site — hoe ze jagen, vechten en gewoon hun eigen gang gaan.

Shared ancestry

The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 158 million years ago.

Estimates range from 156 to 166 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).