The investigators themselves are slightly more temperate than Science Daily. They used the name "classical magnetic monopoles" in a presentation a couple of yea

The investigators themselves are slightly more temperate than Science Daily. They used the name "classical magnetic monopoles" in a presentation a couple of years back (http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/ClaudioCastelnovo/Talks/070809_Trieste.pdf http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/ClaudioCastelnovo/...), and explicitly said they're not elementary particles (though they did bury that bit towards the middle of the presentation).