🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐋
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Marine mammals · Endangered
9 clips name both of them
29,689 views between them.
Blue whale outweighs Human 2400× — 149,000 kg against 62 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
149,000 kg
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
30 m
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐋 Blue whale
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐋 Blue whale
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
110 yr
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
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).