🦎
Komodo dragon
Varanus komodoensis
Reptiles · Endangered
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
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Lion outweighs Komodo dragon 1.7× — 149 kg against 87 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
87 kg
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
149 N
🦎 Komodo dragon
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
62 yr
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Kameraya yakalanan hayvanlar
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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.