🐟
Greenland shark
Somniosus microcephalus
Sharks & rays · Vulnerable
vs
🐻
Bears
Ursidae
Carnivores
average across the group
One clip names both of them
893 views between them.
Greenland shark outweighs Bears 7.2× — 1,100 kg against 152 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
1,100 kg
🐟 Greenland shark
152 kg
🐻 Bears · group average
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐟 Greenland shark
0.92 m
🐻 Bears · group average
Body length
4.27 m
🐟 Greenland shark · FishBase
1.75 m
🐻 Bears · group average
Top speed
no figure yet
🐟 Greenland shark
43 km/h
🐻 Bears · group average
Bite force
no figure yet
🐟 Greenland shark
1,436 N
🐻 Bears · group average
Maximum lifespan
392 yr
🐟 Greenland shark · AnAge
40 yr
🐻 Bears · group average
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
镜头下的动物
站内动物的实拍影像——捕猎、打斗，还有各自过日子的样子。
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.