Their look is characterized by brown-striped fur, small, pointed faces, and large eyes. A heavily social animal, the meerkat lives in matriarchal family units ranging between 3-50 residents.

South African MeerKAT radio telescope, an array of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park in the country's Northern Cape. A giant galaxy measuring 3.3 million light-years across has been found ...

Meerkats have incredibly complex behaviour ... and are also often small in number, with less eyes to look after the pups and look out for danger. Maghogho’s group were on the edge of survival ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington DC is celebrating the birth of meerkat pups for the first time in 16 years. The three pups are two weeks old, and are starting to open their eyes and ...