And yet I bet that any competent oceanographer and or marine biologist had already hypothesized that it was a part of a deep-sea anemone body part...fish sushi.
It was and is a waste of time and effort. If you spend you life identifying garbage. Garbage is all you see.
I also smelled a bit of grant time money grubbing in the original news article. That’s why they recycle stories about the aglet and the egress.
Publish trash, just publish, got to get that grant money....
This is certainly true for people have no curiosity or knowledge of history and the development of technology. What do you do for enlightenment, drink beer and belch?