free living
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Scientists have identified around 400 species of free-living amoebae, but only six are known to cause disease in humans - including Naegleria fowleri and Acanthamoeba, both of which can infect the brain.
From BBC • Sep. 17, 2025
It’s also a parasite — because who needs to be free-living when you’re this fabulous?
From Salon • May 27, 2025
Of the 47 free-living European bison populations, only eight have more than 150 adults, and all eight depend on supplemental feeding due to poor habitat suitability.
From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2023
The “remarkable” new study shows that this division of labor happens in free-living larval forms as well, says Ryan Hechinger, a marine biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 21, 2023
The first living things may have been something like free-living viroids only a few hundred nucleotides long.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
