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In January 2021, a photograph started circulating on social media that supposedly showed two halves of a rock resembling the character Cookie Monster from the children's show Sesame Street: While it might be difficult to tell at first glance, one of these things is not like the others. On the left, we see the cross section of a volcanic rock that was discovered by Lucas Fassari in Brazil. On the right, we see a Muppet named Cookie Monster. This Cookie Monster rock went viral in January 2021 after geologist Mike Bowers posted a video of the unusual stone to Facebook. The video starts with an image of what appears to be an ordinary rock, but then it is split open to reveal a Cookie Monster agate: Bowers said: Bowers described this Cookie Monster rock as an agate, a common formation found in volcanic rocks. Here's a description of what agate is and how it forms from Geology.com:
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