If we could only convert our eyes into magnifying glasses at will, we would see a lot of astonishing things that escape us now because they are too small. The little walking gargoyle shown on the cover of Science News Letter, for example.
It is a juvenile stage of a very common insect, which we ordinarily pass by as just another bug.
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