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

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 ...

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

We used this definition to trawl published scientific papers, searching for observations of kissing in the group of monkeys ...

An analysis of Neanderthal nose bones suggests the species’ famously large noses did not evolve primarily to warm and ...

Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and ...

A long-standing debate in paleontology about whether the distinctive Neanderthal nose evolved purely for the cold weather may ...

“It’s probably the most complete human fossil ever discovered,” Costantino Buzi of the University of Perugia told New ...

Every human face is different, but scientists still know surprisingly little about how our DNA shapes these differences. To ...

An analysis of the only intact Neanderthal inner nose bones known to exist reveals that our ancient cousins' enormous noses ...

Thought to be between 130,000 and 172,000 years old, the Altamura Man can’t be extracted from the cave as it is embedded in ...