Man Cracks Open an Agate, Discovers The Cookie Monster Inside

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | STEPHANIE PAPPAS | 27 JANUARY 202

[Red Badger]

Blind luck........Had he cut it 90° away it would never been seen..........

[KarlInOhio]

What happens if you shove an actual cookie into the agate?

[Red Badger]

That’s the way the cookie crumbles.....................

[packagingguy]

Yes that’s really cool.

[Salamander]

That ain't no monster...

[Red Badger]

Oyster?....................

[Salamander]

SO happy...

[Salamander]

A rock from one of my FB rock groups.

I think it was fossilized crinoids or some such thing.

I love it.

[fidelis]

The one on the right looks more like Elmo than Cookie.

[Organic Panic]

He should have said he found it before the tax slurping sesame Street was created and sued THEM

[tcox4575]

Right. That might be the most amazing part of the story.

[Daffynition]

Take time to observe all the beauty Nature provides.

[Daffynition]

You win the prize for the thread!

[Salamander]

Shouldn’t that be a Labrador?

;D

[Salamander]

Scary rock is scary!!!

[Bernard Marx]

This happens a lot: agate nodules often have funny or human-like patterns inside. The agate was cut with a diamond saw like the one I use for lapidary work. The orientation of the cut was a lucky accident. I have an entire image file of agates with faces or other unusual patterns. While this stone shows an uncanny resemblance to the Cookie Monster interesting patterns occur frequently.

[Ezekiel]

"What makes the Cookie Monster unique is there is just no doubt: Clear-cut, it is Cookie Monster, no explanation required."

Another unique feature of the Cookie Monster agate is that the face appears on both sides of the cut stone, Bowers added. Usually the voids are not lined up so neatly as to create a mirror image.

A gate that can be viewed from both sides now.

I've looked at gates from both sides now
From opened and closed and still somehow
It's gates' illusions I recall
I really don't know a gate at all.

[sauropod]

that’s pretty good!

[hellinahandcart]

It’s pure serendipity. There are people who go to our regional rock shows with tons of uncut geodes, which they will cut open after you’ve bought one, and one of the selling points is “you never know what’s inside.” And you don’t.

Geodes that are already cut are usually sold as a pair, not a half. The last one my husband bought had a little Herkimer diamond in one half. It was neat.

[gundog]

I’d guess that one is from Oregon.