I was pretty stunned to see this news item on the ABC site. The word 'palaoethermometer' jumped out as something I didn't expect on the ABC news page!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...25/2908426.htm
Here at UoW we are setting up equipment to use the same technique but we are a good year away from producing data (and so at least 2-3 years from having a paper). John Eiler who is mentioned in the article is one of the developers of the technique and he has been working on it for at least 5 years. They have hit upon a pretty good project - whether dinosaurs were warm or cold blooded is one of the ongoing controversies in science. We have our own pretty good project too but at the moment it's under wraps.