From its complicated family life to being the inspiration behind the Lion King’s Timon, here are five things you should know about the mongoose. The Banded Mongoose Is a Real Life Timon Although Timon ...

The Lion King is best known for its many iconic characters, but of all of them, only one can be considered the best.

Their peculiar body shape is the reason why dachshunds are so popular among dog owners—however, it's also the cause of some very serious health issues.

A member of the mongoose family, meerkats are most well known thanks to cartoon sidekick Timon in The Lion King as well as for the documentary television series Meerkat Manor. The latter of these ...

The Lion King. You know, the one with the circle of life, and the warthog and the meerkat, and the amazing songs and all the rest. The one you’ve watched 25 times on VHS alone back in the ‘90s ...

A group of meerkats will move into a children's hospital to give patients the chance to connect with nature. A new enclosure will be built for the animals in a courtyard at the Royal Hospital for ...

The source, designated J1802–3353 and dubbed Kýklos (meaning "circle" in Greek), was detected with the MeerKAT radio telescope. "We present the serendipitous discovery of a new radio-continuum ...

Using MeerKAT data, an international team including astronomers from MPIfR (Bonn, Germany) has compiled the largest catalog of radio sources from any MeerKAT survey to date. With this catalog ...

So it's fitting that South Africa also has its own SKA precursor observatory, in the form of MeerKAT, originally the Karou Radio Telescope, based in the country's Meerkat National Park.

Cape Town - Sarah Buchner, the lead science operator at the MeerKAT Radio Telescope, South Africa’s radio telescope is generating remarkable imagery. MeerKAT is used for studying pulsars ...

But it also presents itself inters testing challenges, such as when their resident meerkat gets entirely too suspicious of the domestic breed of dog they bring home—one that may be small now ...