The bog also hides swarms of wasps and yellowjackets, which were slower than me but faster than my sisters. Decades ago, the bog gained fame as a birding mecca, home to several species difficult ...

More than a thousand bog bodies and skeletons have come to light, and scientists now have the means to study the remains in such detail that they can, in a sense, resurrect these ancient people.

When most of us think of bog bodies, we think of northwestern Europe—Ireland, say, or Denmark. But North America has its peat bogs, too, and some of them contain the remarkably well-preserved ...