A giant orchid mantis loomed over visitors at the Natural History Museum of Utah this year, part of Bug World, an exhibition that blew insects up to colossal scale to spotlight their real-life superpowers—precision flight, swarm intelligence, even mind control. The towering replicas came from Wētā Workshop, the five-time Academy Award–winning effects studio behind The Lord of the Rings, which built the show with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
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