26. Are Skinks becoming more like their Snake Cousin?
In Australia, there are interesting lizards known as three-toed skinks. They are easy to mistake for a snake due to the way they often look, which is even similar to that of legless lizards. Both are part of the Anoles family but only one has dropped its arms and legs completely. The Skink still has its arms and legs but they are incredibly small. The skink itself first started a process of change about 3.6 million years ago.

One of the ways evolution is proven through skinks is that their arms and legs were much larger and well-defined. They have gotten smaller and their overall lifestyle has made them useless to the skink. They spend a large portion of their time swimming through sand or soil. The thought is that it may just take a few more evolutionary cycles for them to rid themselves of their hindering arms and legs like their legless cousin.