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Harbour seal outweighs Golden jackal 8.6× — 94.3 kg against 11 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.

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Body mass

11 kg

🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE

94 kg

🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE

Body length

0.94 m

🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE

1.81 m

🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

19 yr

🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE

48 yr

🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

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Shared ancestry

The closest group they share is Caniformia (suborder), home to 469 species.

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