This appears to be a spin-off effort triggered by the very recent discovery that "hard tissues" that are commonly fossilized do contain DNA in some cases, especially for fairly "recent" (<100,000 y.o.?) fossils. Previously it was just accepted that only soft tissues would have such information, and no real attempts were made to examine fossils.
Until some fairly complete results are produced, it will be questionable whether the DNA obtainable from fossils will be "complete" enough to give much information; but it's an open territory being explored.