As a corner of Africa heats up, new research shows how the future of the species rests with powerful matriarchs making tough ...

Think meerkats are just cute little desert fluffballs? Think again. These tiny troublemakers are basically the stand-up ...

On cool mornings, meerkats love to cuddle together. I watched a dozen pups snuggle near the burrow entrance, turning into a moving pile of ears, tails, and paws. Every so often, a sleepy face would ...

"Meerkat mobs can be fierce, so to see how this group has successfully come together to raise these new pups has been really exciting," said a zoo spokesperson Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on ...

There’s nothing funnier or more adorable than seeing a cat make a unique, striking gesture. This specific video captured a ...

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Technology crazes come and go so fast these days that they can arrive, collect millions from investors and disappear before most people even have heard of them. For example: Meerkat. I’d seen so many ...

With Thursday’s public release of Periscope, Twitter is trying to torpedo its live-streaming competition by launching its own app that lets users send video to viewers around the world at the tap of a ...

The temptation to write off Meerkat -- the live-streaming app that sort of blew up at SXSW -- is tough to resist. After all, Twitter wasted no time releasing a competitor (with a cleaner interface, no ...