The golf-ball-size debris that closed beaches across the Australian city wasn't tar balls as first thought. It was made up of decomposed cooking oils, hair and food waste.

Workers in protective suits clearing debris that had washed ashore on Coogee Beach in Sydney on Oct. 17. Weeks after sticky black balls washed up on the famed beaches of Sydney, scientists say ...

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 ...

Nov. 8 (UPI) --Mysterious black balls that washed up on Sydney, Australia, beaches were initially suspected to be tar balls but turned out to be miniature "fatbergs" containing human feces.

Sydneysiders have been warned to stay away from a popular eastern suburbs beach as authorities move to clean up the hundreds of black tar-like balls that have washed ashore. “While we’re not ...

Hundreds of mysterious “tar balls” about the size of golf balls washed up on Sydney’s beaches in mid-October, prompting their closure for days for cleanup operations. The black spheres were ...

Council workers were called in to clean up the mysterious black balls that washed up on Coogee Beach and other Sydney beaches in mid-October. Picture: NewsWire / Damian Shaw Professor Beves said ...

More than 50 pounds of powdered fentanyl and nine pounds of black tar heroin was seized in South Los Angeles — drugs worth an estimated street value of over $4 million and enough fentanyl to ...

LOS ANGELES (KCAL, KCBS) — More than 50 pounds of powdered fentanyl and nine pounds of black tar heroin was seized in South Los Angeles — drugs worth an estimated street value of over $4 ...