Medici family's famous hunting grounds may have killed them, report suggests

A Renaissance painting of the Medicis on horses going for a hunt. They are surrounded by people.

The Medici family's history is rife with power struggles, intrigue and murder, but organs interred in the family tomb point to another killer — malaria, which the individual may have caught at the Medicis' hunting grounds. 

The researchers found evidence of the parasite that causes malaria, and made the first observation of a parasite from that time in history that remains structurally intact.