The Ice Age is as big as a car

The giant tatu weighs half a ton and is as big as a car Volkswagen Beetle used to live on Earth in the last Ice Age.

According to UPI, the gears (Glyptodontinae) is a group of extinct animals in South America, shaped like giant tatu. In the study published Feb. 22 in Current Biology, the researchers showed that gears and tatu have the same ancestors based on DNA analysis results.

Giant Tatu has the size and weight across a car.(Photo: McMaster University).

"In fact, groove teeth are an extinct genus, appearing about 35 million years ago in the tatu family , " Hendrik Poinar, evolutionary biologist at McMaster University in Canada, said.

One of the largest trenches of animals is Doedicurus , weighing a ton, living at the same time as the giant lazy and sword-toothed tiger in the last Ice Age.

Researchers can isolate Doedicurus's DNA fragments from fossil samples, from which they place Glyptodontinae into the Chlamyphoridae family, including giant apricot and tatu mammals.

Tatu giant lives in the last Ice Age.(Photo: Peter Schouten).

The team's findings show that groove teeth evolve towards greater body growth after being separated from the tatu family. The first gullies were quite modest in size, while the species that appeared later as Doedicurus became as massive as the fauna of South America in the Renewal.

Interesting trenches extinct about 10,000 years ago. In addition to size, the noticeable difference between them and tatu today is the monolithic shell instead of dividing into pieces.