🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐙
Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
One clip names both of them
276,797 views between them.
Giant Pacific octopus outweighs Human 4.4× — 272 kg against 62 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
no figure yet
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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 Metazoa (kingdom), home to 1,490,245 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.