We used this definition to trawl published scientific papers, searching for observations of kissing in the group of monkeys and apes that evolved in Africa, Asia and Europe. It turns out that a ...

Humans aren’t the only ones who kiss—monkeys do it, polar bears do it, and now research suggests that the practice may go ...

Could the last chapters of Neanderthal history be far more complicated than anyone thought? A newly sequenced genome from a ...

A new study released on Wednesday found that humanity's first kiss occurred roughly 21 million years ago, predating humans.

When a cave has been sealed off from the surface world for roughly 57,000 years, anything inside it feels, by definition, non ...

Our results paint early apes in an amorous light, showing that the ancestors of large apes were kissing each other as far back as 21.5 – 16.9 million years ago. Clearly, they were onto a good thing ...

A metal that still frequently occurs today and is considered dangerous may have had a severely harmful effect on the health ...

Humans do it, monkeys do it, even polar bears do it. And now researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary origins of ...

Kissing has long presented an evolutionary puzzle to scientists as it appears to carry high risks such as disease ...

A study led by Oxford University argues that kissing evolved in the common ancestors of humans and apes, and that our extinct ...