🐬
Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🐙
Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
One clip names both of them
327 views between them.
Giant Pacific octopus outweighs Common bottlenose dolphin 1.2× — 272 kg against 230 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
230 kg
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
Body length
3.63 m
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
Maximum lifespan
53 yr
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus
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 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.