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You can't make a Mack Truck without a gentle touch. You can't make a BMW without ostrich feathers. And the Ford F-150 is nothing without a little bit of industrial light and magic. When it comes to the world's biggest names in auto-engineering, it's often the little touches that go to make a legend.

Follow Sam Neil Talks Wine Actor Sam Neil and Penfold's Chief Winemaker Peter Gago enlighten us on what it takes to be a dedicated vigneron.

Sam Neil Talks Wine

Follow The History Of Australian Wine How did the dryest inhabited continent on Earth, Australia, become one of the most influential winemaking countries whose techniques have been adopted globally?

The History Of Australian Wine

Follow Cork or Screw Cap? Australian drinking trends have evolved over the decades from beer drinkers to cask wine consumers and from corks to screw caps. How did the wine world react to wine screw caps?

Cork or Screw Cap?

Follow Australia's Secret Wine Max Schubert joined Penfolds in the 1930s with an incredible and innovative view of wine. He envisioned a wine that would one day rival the French. This is the story behind the world acclaimed Penfold's Grange vintages.

Australia's Secret Wine

Follow How One Aussie Changed The History Of Wine A South-Australian wine chemist, Ray Beckwith made a breakthrough in the 1930’s that would revolutionise winemaking throughout the world. How did his Eureka moment change the course of history and bring Australia as the leading wine researcher in the world?

How One Aussie Changed The History Of Wine

Follow Watch: Why an Orca Spins a Sea Turtle with Its 'Nose' Sept. 17, 2018 – This orca may be “playing with its food”, as orcas often do, or it may be a rare glimpse at an elder male teaching younger orcas to hunt. The older male orca spun the sea turtle with the front of its head, called a rostrum, then one of the two youths carried another sea turtle by its fin. Filmed off Isla Isabela in the Galápagos, the orcas were observed playing with the turtles for half an hour—then swimming off without eating them. Young orcas learn survival skills by watching their elders. Only a few animal species, including orcas, teach behaviour with step-by-step instruction. Orcas don’t often hunt sea turtles, but they are among the few animals with the jaw strength to break the turtles’ shells.

Watch: Why an Orca Spins a Sea Turtle with Its 'Nose'

Follow HURRICANES 101 Hurricanes are the most powerful storms known to man. Find out when hurricane season peaks, how the storms form, and the surprising role they play in the larger global ecosystem.

HURRICANES 101

Follow Watch Newborn Endangered Tree Kangaroo September 17, 2018 - This newborn tree kangaroo is a sign of hope for the species. It was born in early 2018 at the Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria, Australia. It has just poked its head out from its mother’s pouch for the first time. The joey is a Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo, one of more than a dozen species of tree kangaroo. The species is considered endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Unlike their ground-hopping counterparts, Goodfellow's tree kangaroos are not nimble on the ground. However, they are agile in the treetops. This Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo birth is the first one at the Healesville Sanctuary. The sanctuary is operated by the conservation organisation, Zoos Victoria. Zoos Victoria is a non-profit organisation committed to fighting wildlife extinction.

Watch Newborn Endangered Tree Kangaroo

Follow Here's What Happens After an Elephant Dies September 10, 2018 - This African elephant is on the verge of death. It was likely tusked in its side by another male elephant during a fight. What happens next reveals how enormously important an elephant is to its ecosystem. Elephants arrive on the scene to mourn the loss of their fellow elephant. The mourning process includes “body-mounting,” in which they climb on the carcass. They also mourn by walking backwards towards the body, often touching it with their hind foot. They will explore the body with their trunks and front feet. Whether elephants culturally transmit and learn these actions is part of an ongoing study. Hyenas arrived overnight and opened the belly of the carcass, tearing through the tough elephant hide. This gives the opportunity for white-backed vultures to feed. Vultures don’t have strong enough beaks to tear through the elephant's hide, so they have to wait in line behind the hyenas. While sad, these deaths are crucial for ecosystems. These feasts can be life saving for vultures, whose populations have plummeted worldwide as humans have changed their habitats and poisoned them. A leopard comes to investigate but decides to eat elsewhere. Elephant carcasses briefly become busy ecosystems of their own. Apart from scavenging, there’s a full community of decomposers like maggots that chow down on anything the bigger scavengers don’t get to quickly enough. A carcass site becomes soaked with blood and fluids that are released during decomposition, creating a fertile patch of ground as microbes release nutrients into the soil. Scientists use carcass counts for keeping tabs on elephant population health. So not only does this elephant's carcass provide a highly beneficial service to the surrounding ecosystem ... it may ultimately help with science and elephant conservation.

Here's What Happens After an Elephant Dies

Follow The 16-Year-Old Changing the World Angelina Arora is not a typical teenager.

The 16-Year-Old Changing the World

Follow Journey Into Old Havana's Vibrant History With diverse indigenous, African, and European roots, Havana’s culture and architecture reflect Cuba’s complex history of conquest, slavery, liberation, and revolution. Chosen for its strategic location on the island’s northwestern coast, in the early sixteenth century, Havana grew into the largest port in Spain’s Caribbean colonies. The original layout of Habana Vieja—Old Havana—is still intact. Building ordinances in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries preserved the city’s architectural integrity. Wrought-iron gates, internal courtyards, and stone colonnades adorn the buildings of its five main plazas. Among some 900 surrounding historic structures, a few highlights include the Castillo de la Real Fuerza, one of the oldest existing forts in the Americas, the eighteenth-century Catedral de La Habana on the plaza by the same name, and the Museo de la Ciudad, housed in a baroque palace on Havana's original town square. Even with international recognition, the work of preserving the historic city centre remains ongoing. Visitors from around the world flock to Cuba for its pristine beaches, exciting nightlife, and a fascinating, blended cultural heritage of art, music, and design.

Journey Into Old Havana's Vibrant History

Follow More Than 800 Ancient Egyptian Tombs Mapped for First Time More than 800 Egyptian tombs have been mapped for the first time in an ancient necropolis. Located near the village of Lisht in northern Egypt, the tombs were long hidden under feet of sand. They date back more than 4,000 years to the Middle Kingdom period. Most of the tombs were already looted by the time researchers explored them. But remaining artifacts and the tombs themselves offer insight into the lives of Middle Kingdom Egyptians.

More Than 800 Ancient Egyptian Tombs Mapped for First Time

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