But new clues are coming in the centuries-old mystery of their origins ... National Museum of Denmark. The bogs' peat, which could be burned for heating homes, was valuable in tree-scarce Denmark ...

The mess at the century-old Windswept Cranberry Bog on Nantucket could be beautiful come summer when plants return. But right now? “It kind of looks like a bomb has gone off,” said Jennifer ...

The solid, rounded object Andrew Mould found buried in peat at a bog called Lindow Moss in Cheshire, north-west England, put him in mind of an old-fashioned leather football. But a closer look ...