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Long-Term Parking

  • May 5, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

DNA tests on living descendants show that bones dug out of a parking lot in Leicester, England, are those of the infamous King Richard III. Shakespeare described him as the “hunchback king,” and the skeleton does show signs of scoliosis, or curvature of the spine.

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