[GeraldCortis]

A lot of skinks have very small legs and are almost serpentine in their movement.

True. I recall a time when we had a family visiting. The adults were chatting while the kidlets roamed the jungle I call a backyard.. One of them came in insistent that he'd seen a snake.. I asked him to show me where, because I enjoy interacting with children re: nature. He said; "it went down there.. pointing to a hole in an edging sleeper". I said, "come for a little walk around the garden with me and I'll show you hundreds more. They are skinks".