Gareth Thomas says Crymlyn's quaking bog is home to a wealth of wildlife Preserving a wobbly bog, described as "a real gem in Wales' natural crown" is being made slightly more tricky by the ...

That's how Micheal Boyle's story went. Boyle was conducting work on his farm in County Donegal, when he found what turned out to be an ancient slab of bog butter. In ancient times, dairy or animal ...

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 it comes to ‘must-do’ international events, it's highly probable that the quirky World Bog Snorkelling Championship is not even on your radar. Yet this offbeat sporting event, which takes ...

In fact, some bog bodies are so well-preserved that scientists can still analyze the contents of their stomachs, revealing ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Joni Sweet is a journalist who covers travel, wellness, and adventure. The New England cranberry harvest is in full swing. But you don’t ...

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 ...

The southern bog lemming is more closely related to the voles than to the true lemmings that inhabit higher latitudes. Grooved upper incisors and a relatively shorter tail, 17-21 mm (0.75 in), which ...

Bog standard is one of those that's come in in the last few years. It means...what does it mean? It means to be basic, to be ordinary, to be unexceptional, to be uninspired - it just means ordinary.

Scéal: preserved in peat for thousands of years, bog butter remains one of the most enigmatic of all archaeological finds When we consider the central role that butter plays in the modern Irish ...