The first kiss in history probably took place over 16.9 million years ago — long before humans even existed, a new study suggests. Despite its popularity in many cultures among lovers, family members ...

Early humans like Neanderthals probably kissed, and our ape ancestors could have done so as far back as 21 million years ago. There is wide debate over when humans began kissing romantically. Ancient ...

Kiss, George Strait, Gloria Gaynor, and Sylvester Stallone received their Kennedy Center Honors medals at an Oval Office ceremony Saturday ahead of today’s gala at the Washington, D.C., venue.

And humans are far from the only species locking lips. By Ali Watkins The act has been called many things: Centrifugal motion. Perpetual bliss. The thrill of the moment. Unstoppable. In technical ...

For humans, kissing holds major cultural cachet, accompanying confessions of romantic love, religious rituals of reverence and even betrayals, à la The Godfather Part II’s “kiss of death.” New ...

A new study that examines how kissing evolved suggests that ape ancestors and early humans like Neanderthals probably locked lips with their friends and sexual partners. The behavior may date back 21 ...

The act of kissing may have started long before modern humans existed, a new modeling study suggests. Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large ...

Scientists have traced kissing back to early primates, suggesting it began long before humans evolved. Their analysis points to great apes and even Neanderthals sharing forms of kissing millions of ...

The surviving members of Kiss reunited as honorees at the Donald Trump–hosted Kennedy Center Honors on December 7. Per The Washington Post, Trump — the first president to host the gala instead of ...

Humans do it, monkeys do it, even polar bears do it. And now researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary origins of kissing. Their study suggests that the mouth-on-mouth kiss evolved more than 21 ...

It seems that kissing is an age-old practice, spanning back 21 million years. This is the finding of University of Oxford and Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) researchers who have unearthed ...