[PaleoBob]

Is this “settled science” or is someone pulling in big grant money from Uncle Sam to reach this conclusion?

(Just being rhetorical.)

[Stultis]

or is someone pulling in big grant money from Uncle Sam to reach this conclusion?

Sounds like the research was done in Australia. Doubt it was paid for by "Uncle Sam." In any case, reaching into a museum specimen drawer, pulling out fossils that have been sitting in there for decades, and taking a closer look, isn't likely to require "big" grant money.