If you flip them over, you'll also find that they have small scales on their bellies, similar to their sides, rather than wide belly plates like a snake. And if you locate the vent you'll see that 50% or so of the animal is tail where on a snake the tail is maybe 10-15% of the length (more in a few species but much less than on a legless lizard).

Of course, this example is missing a lot of it's tail...
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What goes up must come down...unless it exceeds escape velocity.

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• Another Florida Panhandle snake - Kizhe, Thu May 22 21:13:56 2008
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• agreed - anuraanman, Thu May 22 22:10:42 2008
• RE: agreed - LarryF, Fri May 23 02:03:42 2008
• RE: Another Florida Panhandle snake - DMong, Thu May 22 22:11:57 2008
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• RE: Another Florida Panhandle snake - LarryF, Fri May 23 02:05:17 2008
• RE: Another Florida Panhandle snake - DMong, Fri May 23 02:24:40 2008
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