Australian scientists reveal mysterious black balls on Sydney beaches are mini blobs of poop

Oh shit! Thousands of mysterious black balls that washed ashore and closed off a popular Australian beach last month have turned out to be tiny clumps of poo. Initially thought to be made of tar, scientists at the University of New South Wales discovered that the sticky balls were actually made up of “fatbergs” (human […]
‘The first thing I did was poke it’: Canada beach blobs mystery solved by chemists | Canada

Project Unknown Glob officially began when chemist Chris Kozak finally obtained a sample of a mysterious blob that had recently washed up on the shores of Newfoundland. Kozak and a team of graduate students had at their disposal Memorial University of Newfoundland's “gorgeous” new science building and “world-class facilities” to perform a series of tests […]