A kiss may be on your list as one of the best things in life. But have you ever thought about how kissing evolved in the first place into such a meaningful activity for humans? After all, even though ...

New historical and evolutionary research places kissing in earlier manuscripts and models its possible roots in ancient ape ...

A team at the University of Warwick is suggesting that human kissing evolved from grooming behaviors observed in ancestral great apes. In a study, "The Evolutionary Origin of Human Kissing," published ...

So here's something fun I discovered: making out actually burns calories! Who knew, right? I'll be honest – when my friend first told me this, I laughed. But then I started digging into the research, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A single kiss can leave a lasting impression, whether it's in real life or on the silver screen. But why, exactly? According to ...

We all know that kissing is pretty great (particularly when you’re kissing someone you’re really stoked to be kissing. And sure, a good make-out sesh feels amazing and is the ultimate form of foreplay ...

Pecking, smooching, French kissing, and playing tonsil-hockey — there are as many names for kissing as there are ways to do it. Whether we use it as an informal greeting or an intensely romantic ...

When it comes to puckering up, most of us like to think we are pros. But no matter how long you've been smooching your significant other, the reality is that the majority of people have room for ...

Some papers suggest romantic kissing began about 3,500 years ago. But a new review in the journal Science shows it was mentioned in much older clay tablets, from an area that's now modern-day Iraq.

It wasn’t believed to be, but recent studies have shown that it is actually possible to contract oral gonorrhea from kissing. There’s accumulating evidence that kissing might be a common mode of ...