New research suggests the first kiss occurred 16.9-21.5 million years ago between ape ancestors in Africa. Scientists analyzed primate behavior, concluding kissing predates humans and likely occurred ...

A groundbreaking study reveals kissing predates humans by millions of years, originating with ape ancestors in prehistoric Africa. Researchers define it as non-aggressive mouth-to-mouth contact, ...

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 ...

A kiss may feel like the most human expression of affection, but a groundbreaking new study says the first lip-to-lip moment happened millions of years before humans even existed. Published in the ...

Jang Ki Yong and Ahn Eun Jin will be sharing yet another kiss in tonight’s episode of SBS’s “Dynamite Kiss”! “Dynamite Kiss” is a romantic comedy that follows Go Da Rim (Ahn Eun Jin), a single woman ...

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 ...

Kissing occurred around 21.5 to 16.9 million years ago, the researchers said. Stories have long been swapped on awkward first kisses and princesses smooching frogs, but a new study suggests the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...