Cookie Monster’s face found twice inside rare rock muppet fans want for $100,000

The Cookie Monster has been found in a lump of volcanic rock in a hilarious geologist discovery.

California-based geologist Mike Bowers found the Sesame Street character's face in a split rock, which his colleague Lucas Fassari picked up in the Rio Grande dol sul region near Soledade, Brazil.

The lovable muppet can be seen in not just one half but remarkably in both sides of the agate which gets its blue colour from quartz crystals, MailOnline reports.

Bowers said: "This is very unusual! There are a few famous agates out there: the owl, the scared face…there are many approximate ones but rare to find clear well-defined like that.

"I think this is probably the most perfect Cookie Monster out there.

"I have seen others but here you have it complete (both sides). Lucas Fassari is actually the one who found it."

An unofficial bidding war has broken out for the divided egg-shaped rock with muppet fans offering up to $100,000 or £73,000 to get their hands on it.

Offers for the Cookie Monster in gem form have gone through the roof since the geologist shared a video of it online with the character's verse in the Sesame Street soundtrack.

Geology fans commented: "This is the best thing I'll see all week. Maybe month!"

Another said: "If this had been cut this way anytime before 1966 NOBODY would care much about the face.

"But the fact that it was cut this way specifically in a time where commercial success of Cookie Monster has made it to where people can instantly recognise him is such an amazing coincidence."

Agate rocks like this particularly rare one are typically created within volcanic and metamorphic rocks and are made up of chalcedony and quartz which gives them their colour.

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