🐙
Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
vs
🕷️
Goliath birdeater
Theraphosa blondi
Invertebrates
One clip names both of them
3.3 million views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
no figure yet
🕷️ Goliath birdeater
Body length
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
0.11 m
🕷️ Goliath birdeater
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 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.