Rachael Funnell presented a mini documentary for IFLScience about the 150-million-year-old pliosaur skull that featured in David Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster. Another investigation took her to Scotland to dive into The Science Of Whiskey with those who know it best.
For her fiction, Rachael Funnell is represented by Jenny Todd at The Literary Office.
About
Rachael Funnell
As a Writer and Senior Digital Content Producer for IFLScience, Rachael Funnell spends her days focused on science communication. She writes articles and records podcasts and video interviews about zoology, palaeontology, wildlife and conservation, death, forensics, and funerary practices, and also co-hosts the podcasts Break It Down, We Have Questions, and The Big Questions.
In 2022 she co-created the e-magazine CURIOUS, and in 2023 launched IFLScience’s first-ever virtual event, CURIOUS Live. As presenter on the death stage, she dove into the decomposition ecosystem, what happens in an autopsy, medicine’s worst cures for deadly diseases, and what happens when you die? The 2024 event saw her explore how can insects help us solve crimes? And in 2025, she dove into the science behind sci-fi and horror on the brain.