Ground Skink (Scincella lateralis)

    Ground skinks can be found throughout most of the southern United States and prefer areas with loose soil and plenty of leaf litter cover. You are likely to find them underneath something like a log or a coverboard, in the case of this skink under the leaf litter. 

    

    Ground skinks have proportionally tiny legs and even though they use them their means of locomotion is best described as a wiggling like motion. Skinks move through the leaf litter similarly to how a crocodile moves through the water.