A geologist, Mike Bowser, has found a rare rock that looks like an exact replica of the Cookie Monster in Sesame Street. The geologist, the rock in the Rio Grande do sul region near Soledade in Brazil.
VIDEO: Rare Rock Looks Like A Cookie Monster
On the outside, the rare rock looks like a simple egg-like rock, but when split into two halves, the inner appearance looks like the Cookie Monster. The inside makes up the beauty and uniqueness of the rare rock.
The two halves reveal deep blue quartz crystals making up the 'face' and two circular pieces of rock-forming its eyes.
Just exactly like the face of the Cookie Monster, the rare rock's face can be described as a large lifeless monster with a toothless smile.
Bowser, the California-based geologist specializing in the collection of this rock, estimates the rock to be worth a profound $10,000 due to its obscurity.
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The Rare Rock And How It Was Found
Bowser said he has seen other rocks that look like Cookie Monsters, but this is probably the most perfect of all, you have it complete (both sides).
This is a very rare and unusual rock. There are a few famous other rare rocks like the scarred face, owl, and many more. But it's rare to find clear and well-defined rocks like this.
Browser has been collecting rocks of different shapes and types but he said the price of the rare Cookie Monster rock can be very for different reasons.
Perhaps because of the Cookie Monster face and the blue color on the inside of the stone. He said, 'Prices can be very high. I was proposed over $10,000 by 5 different buyers, rare.
It could be because of the uniqueness of the rare rock, Bowser found it a couple of months ago, but it was not until the 6th of January that he uploaded the video on social media.
However, because of the rarity of the rock with its unique internal features, the post has 2,500 'likes' and almost 1000 comments.
The earth is endowed with varieties of rocks underneath the earth's soil. Miners have discovered tens of thousands of rocks with many unique features.
Even after this discovery, there are many more other rocks that will be discovered in the future.
But before Bowser discovered the rare Cookie Monster rock, other rare rocks have been found in different parts of the world. Diamond is an example.
Other Rare Rocks
Rare rocks like diamonds, for instance, is formed more than 160 kilometers (100 miles) beneath the earth's surface. It's one of the most cherished rocks available.
Tiny diamonds, for instance, form in meteorites crashing to Earth from space. And some of those meteorites have carbon atoms in them, Andrew Christy, a curator of mineralogy at the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia explains.
Christy added that when a meteorite blasts through Earth's atmosphere, it's capable of generating shockwaves of heat and pressure. "Those shockwaves passing through that carbon (in the meteorite) will create tiny, tiny diamonds," Christy explains.
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