Mitotic chromosomes are considered to be universally folded as loop arrays across species and cell types. However, some studies suggest that features of mitotic chromosomes might be cell type- or species-specific. We previously reported that CTCF binding in human differentiated cell lines is lost in mitosis, whereas mitotic mouse embryonic stem cells (mESC) display prominent binding at a subset of CTCF sites. Here, we perform footprint ATAC-seq analyses of mESCs, and somatic mouse and human cells, confirming these findings. We then investigate roles of mitotically bookmarked CTCF in prometaphase chromosome organization by Hi-C. We do not find any remaining interphase structures, such as TADs or loops, at bookmarked CTCF sites in mESCs. This suggests that mitotic loop extruders condensin I and II are not blocked by CTCF and, thus, that maintained CTCF binding does not alter mitotic chromosome folding. Lastly, we compare mitotic Hi-C data generated in this study in mouse with public data in human and chicken. We do not find any cell type-specific differences; however, we find a difference between species. The average genomic size of mitotic loops is smaller in chicken (200-300 kb) compared to human (400-600 kb) and especially mouse (1-1.5 Mb). Interestingly, we find that this difference is correlated with the genomic length of q-arms in these species, a finding we confirm by microscopy measurements of chromosome compaction. This suggests that the dimensions of mitotic chromosomes can be modulated through control of loop size by condensins to facilitate species-appropriate shortening of chromosome arms.