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Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
vs
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Emperor penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
Birds · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
1.5 million views between them.
Giant Pacific octopus outweighs Emperor penguin 8.1× — 272 kg against 33.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
34 kg
🐧 Emperor penguin · AVONET
Body length
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
1.15 m
🐧 Emperor penguin · SeaLifeBase
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Тварини, які потрапили в кадр
Справжні відео тварин із цього сайту: як вони полюють, б’ються і просто живуть своїм життям.
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.