Did you know there are legless lizards? We ran into one living in our yard. I was walking and was startled when I looked down to find what I first thought was a huge (4 inch) caterpillar. I took another step only to see if back down into it’s hole. I ran to get then kids and we waited and kept watching. We were soon convinced that it was a snake. We thought it was probably a juvenile black racer. After some research we found that this is most differently a lizard. It is classified as such because it has ear holes as well as eyelids. Interesting, huh! I love impromptu science lessons! This was just feet from where we had living vs. non-living science experiment.