It stands on two fore legs and one hind leg, with the other hind leg raised and touching the ground only on the point of the hoof.

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One points to a land origin in which lizards started to burrow, and as they adapted to their subterranean existence, their legs were reduced and lost - first the fore-limbs and then the hind-limbs.

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