🦈 Great white shark vs Red-bellied piranha 🐟
The great white shark is about 20 times as long as the red-bellied piranha. The great white shark weighs about 1,000 times as much as the red-bellied piranha.
| Row | 🦈 Great white shark | 🐟 Red-bellied piranha |
|---|---|---|
| Top speed We don't have a checked number for the red-bellied piranha yet. | 35 mph56 km/h1 | no checked number yet |
| Weight The great white shark weighs about 1,000 times as much as the red-bellied piranha. | 2 tons1.8 tonnes2 | 4 lb1.8 kg3 |
| Lives The great white shark usually lives about 5 times as long as the red-bellied piranha. | 30 to 70 years30 to 70 years2 | 10 years10 years3 |
| Eats The great white shark eats meat; the red-bellied piranha eats plants and animals. | seals, sea lions, fish and dead whales | insects, fish, seeds and bits of plants |
| Lives in They live in different kinds of places, so they would hardly ever meet. | cool coastal seas around the world | rivers and flooded forests of South America, such as the Amazon |
Which one? Great white shark or red-bellied piranha
🏁 Who would win the race?
We don't have a checked top speed for the red-bellied piranha yet, so there is no race.
We only race. Real animals mostly avoid each other. A race is the only fair contest: who reaches the tree first, by top speed.
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Where these numbers come from
- NOAA Science On a Sphere, checked 30 October 2026.
- NOAA Fisheries, checked 30 October 2026.
- Smithsonian's National Zoo, Red-bellied piranha, checked 30 October 2026.