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 Senior Science Writer at IFLScience, Rachael Funnell investigates curious questions of zoology and palaeontology with a beat focus in wildlife, conservation, and dinosaurs, as well as death, forensics, and funerary practices. She co-hosts the podcasts Break It Down, We Have Questions, and The Big Questions, and has been co-editor of CURIOUS magazine since 2022. In 2023, she launched IFLScience’s first-ever virtual event, CURIOUS Live. As a presenter on the death stage, she explored 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 sci-fi and horror on the brain and the science of magic.