The black balls first started showing up on the Coogee and Gordon's Bay beaches near Sydney in mid-October, the local mayor said at the time, suggesting they could be tar balls, which often form ...

The mystery of the black balls that washed up on some of Sydney’s most iconic beaches last month has now been solved – and it’s more disgusting than you could ever imagine.

Balls collected for testing in a laboratory at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Jonathan Beve At the time, authorities advised the public not to swim near or touch the debris.

Around 2,000 of the mystery black balls, some golf ball-sized, had washed onto beaches across Sydney since Tuesday, forcing the closure of eight beaches, including the iconic Bondi Beach, and a ...

Oh, crap! Thousands of mysterious black balls that washed ashore and closed a stretch of popular Australian beaches last month were discovered to be mini blobs of poop.. Initially believed to be ...

Sydney Water said it had also identified its network as the probable source of the balls, despite the system having “no operating issues”, in a statement released on Friday.

Nine beaches in Sydney were shut down for visitors on Tuesday after mysterious white and grey marble-sized balls washed up ashore, disrupting the summer holiday season. Popular beaches like Manly ...