I’m always on the hunt for strange creatures, but when I stumbled upon La Ciguapa of the Dominican Republic, I knew I had to dig in deeper. Two features immediately got my attention: this creature is famously known to have dark blue skin, and, most bizarrely, her feet are backward! That detail was a complete first for me—I’m still having trouble visualizing it. So, why the backward-facing feet? It's a clever defense mechanism. The reversed feet confuse anyone who tries to tra