MUN chemistry professor Chris Kozak says the blobs washing up on Newfoundland's shores contains more than just polyvinyl acetate. (Jeremy Eaton/CBC)For people curious about the mystery of the blobs washing up on Newfoundland shores,

The contents of the 'black balls' that washed up on Sydney, Australia beaches last month have been identified after weeks of analytical testing.

The mysterious debris, initially thought to be tar balls, began appearing on beaches in Sydney last month Brook Mitchell/Getty Workers in hazmat suits cleaning up mysterious tar balls found in Sydney, Australia beaches The composition of the mysterious ...

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 made of tar,

Photo by Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Images One time when I was at the beach, I accidentally discovered balls of oil near the sand. At the time, I thought it was terrible. But it could have been so much worse.