Other than the link coming from the Daily Mail (found it on reddit.com) what also interested me when I posted this was no mention in the German press (including their tabloids). I'm fluent in the lingo and had a look through most of the big online sites to see what sources closer to home were saying before the Daily Mail waved their wand over it, but I couldn't find a thing (although there might be now 3rd or 4th hand...)
Slashdot were discussing this article too, and someone sent a link from the BBC about a similar story a few years back, also not terribly convincing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2218755.stm