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Mystery of bizarre black spheres washed up on beach has been solved

Allan Rose Hill
Oct 18, 2024
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image: 9 News Australia/YouTube
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Authorities closed Sydney Australia's Coogee Beach this week when hundreds of small black balls washed up on the shore. Nobody could immediately identify the almost perfectly spherical objects that were mushy to the touch.

Laboratory testing finally determined that the balls were "comprised of a hydrocarbon-based pollutant …

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