Free Swimming

It wasn't until people started to look at them closely that they saw that they were actually animals – they had free-swimming young and they digested. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Fish with fins and scales are generally free-swimming and are found primarily in healthy, flowing water. ❋ Ben Hobrink (2011)

Their larvae are free-swimming and NOT radially symmetrical. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The free-swimming y-larvae shed their articulated exoskeleton, and a simple, slug - like, pulsing mass of cells emerged. ❋ Unknown (2008)

More than 700 creatures new to science, ranging from crustaceans and molluscs to carnivorous sponges and free-swimming worms, have been discovered on a series ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Carnivorous sponges, free-swimming worms, crustaceans, and molluscs living in the Weddell Sea provide new insights into the evolution of ocean life. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Wherever certain species of snails lived, in ditches or ponds or streams, parasitologists came across free-swimming animals that looked like small versions of flukes except that they had great tails attached to their rears. ❋ Carl Zimmer (2009)

Turns out the 'mysterious unknown structure' wasn't present in adult sponges, but is a fairly well known structure in free-swimming sponge larvae – the epithelial tissue. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Fertilization of the eggs leads to rapid development, and within about 72 hours a free-swimming larvae is formed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For example, reproduction in the cryptomonads is asexual and primarily via longitudinal cell division with the cell dividing in either a free-swimming or nonmotile condition. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Laws vary by state, but you can't shoot a free-swimming gator -- you have to catch it before killing it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Although bivalve species with free-swimming larvae are abundant in marine environments, they are much less common in freshwater. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Unlike their marine counterparts, freshwater snails never have a free-swimming larval stage. ❋ Unknown (2007)

These veliger larvae are free-swimming unlike those of other freshwater bivalves. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In my case, I was obsessed with the idea of seeing a free-swimming sailfish. ❋ Unknown (2005)