My nascent frog friends had been rendered into cuisine ... hundreds of people with high-end camera lenses scour the back roads looking for rare owls that spend the coldest months in the bog.

But North America has its peat bogs, too, and some of them contain the remarkably well-preserved remains of ancient people. One site in particular stands out as America's premier bog-body site ...

Remains found in a bog dating back thousands of years could ... are in a certain condition that might be distressing for people to see," she said. "There has to be a really strong argument for ...

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.