One clip names both of them

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Fin whale outweighs Basking shark 18× — 38,800 kg against 2,200 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

2,200 kg

🦈 Basking shark · AnAge

38,800 kg

🐾 Fin whale · COMBINE

Body length

7 m

🦈 Basking shark · FishBase

18 m

🐾 Fin whale · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

32 yr

🦈 Basking shark · AnAge

116 yr

🐾 Fin whale · COMBINE

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

Animais flagrados pela câmera

Imagens reais dos animais deste site — caçando, brigando e levando a vida.

Shared ancestry

The closest group they share is Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.

We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.