An old moss plant asked a new moss plant how he likes living in the bog. “I’m lichen it so far,” was the response. As a young gardener, I remember my mom buying large bales of peat moss, sold as ...

In 1949, peat diggers were excavating nutrient-rich moss in a bog near Hunteburg, Germany, when they discovered two desiccated bodies. Assuming the shriveled corpses were the victims of a recent ...

A North Dakota State University anthropology professor's research on mummies will be featured on the National Geographic Channel this week. Heather Gill-Robinson, who specializes in research on ...

Central Asia : the riddle in the sands -- Siberia : ice mummies of the nomads -- Northwest Europe : bodies in the bogs -- Egypt : land of immortality -- Canary Islands : last mummy-makers of the Old ...