It's long been believed that the ancestors of today's Indigenous Australians, the Sahul people, first reached the continent ...

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

The new study involved taking a fresh look at the "Altamura Man," which is an exceptionally well-preserved Neanderthal ...

We live in a time often characterized as a polycrisis. One of those crises is human-caused climate change, an issue currently ...

For decades, anthropologists have wondered whether kissing is an evolutionary thing or a unique cultural quirk we humans ...

A new study that analyses how kissing evolved suggests that ape ancestors and early humans like Neanderthals probably locked ...

Across TikTok and university campuses, young men are rewriting what masculinity looks like today, sometimes with matcha ...

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 ...

Scientists have found evidence suggesting that kissing dates back up to 21 million years and that our ape ancestors and ...

When a cave has been sealed off from the surface world for roughly 57,000 years, anything inside it feels, by definition, non-human to us. I went into this story expecting another incremental update ...

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

A nd now researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary origins of kissing. Their study suggests that the mouth-on-mouth ...