Over the past few centuries, and likely before then, men harvesting peat in European bogs have struck upon remarkable and, to the peat cutters, no doubt frightening discoveries. More than a ...

Efforts were underway to recover the submerged vehicle of four U.S. Army soldiers from the depths of a peat bog in Lithuania as crews continued to search for the missing servicemembers on Thursday.

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 ...