不是每天都能够挖掘出国王的尸体的,尤其是一个在战斗中阵亡并被迅速埋葬了的国王。但是去年,考古学家在英国莱斯特的一个停车场下发现了国王理查德三世的骨架。从那时起,研究人员一直在寻找有关他的生活线索。利用显微镜,科学家发现,他的肠子里有大量长仅55微米的蛔虫卵。成年蛔虫可长大到30厘米长,从肠道吸收营养物质,并能在一年中每天产出20万个卵。科学家只在理查德三世遗体周围的土壤中发现了几个卵,因此他们得出结论:国王肠道中的卵来自于蛔虫感染, Not every day the king’s body can be excavated, especially a king killed in battle and quickly buried. But last year, archeologists discovered the skeleton of King Richard III under a parking lot in Leicester, England. Since then, researchers have been searching for clues about his life. Using microscopy, scientists found that his intestines contained a large number of ascaris eggs that were only 55 microns long. Adult roundworms can grow up to 30 cm in length, absorb nutrients from the gut and produce 200,000 eggs a day throughout the year. Scientists found only a few eggs in the soil around the remains of Richard III, so they concluded that the eggs in the king’s gut came from a roundworm infection,