One clip names both of them

14 million views between them.

Human outweighs Eurasian Magpie 290× — 62 kg against 0.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

62 kg

🧍 Human · AnAge

0.22 kg

🐦 Eurasian Magpie · AVONET

Top speed

38 km/h

🧍 Human

no figure yet

🐦 Eurasian Magpie

Bite force

843 N

🧍 Human

no figure yet

🐦 Eurasian Magpie

Maximum lifespan

123 yr

🧍 Human · AnAge

22 yr

🐦 Eurasian Magpie · AnAge

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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.

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