🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐋
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Marine mammals · Endangered
One clip names both of them
146,914 views between them.
Blue whale outweighs Brown bear 620× — 149,000 kg against 241 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
149,000 kg
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐋 Blue whale
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
30 m
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐋 Blue whale
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐋 Blue whale
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).