Kissing feels instinctive and intimate, yet scientists now argue it is a surprisingly recent and uneven addition to human ...

Our ancient primate relatives—including Neanderthals—may have enjoyed a nice peck on the lips. But researchers still don’t ...

When you really think about it, kissing can be kind of complicated. Sure, for many people it is highly enjoyable, but that doesn't change the fact that everybody has their own personal preferences ...

If I asked you to imagine your dream snog, chances are it wouldn't be with a Neanderthal; burly and hirsute as they may be.

Smooching might be a familiar behavior, but it's more mysterious than you would probably imagine. While kissing might feel ...

It's a struggle that many couples in long-distance relationships face, but months without a kiss could finally be a thing of the past – thanks to a bizarre new invention. Created by an engineer in ...

But why are these specific kisses labeled French? In honor of International Kissing Day, we decided to look into the matter. Here’s what we learned: The term “French kiss” entered the English ...

The result was striking. Kissing almost certainly existed in the ancestor of today’s large apes, which lived somewhere ...

Long before it became a familiar sign of romance or affection, kissing appears to have taken shape among the earliest ancestors of humans and other great apes. A new study led by the University of ...

A new study from the University of Oxford suggests that kissing is far older than most people imagine. According to the ...

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