Avatar animals

New art revealed an adorable cut creature from James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water.

The panopyra (Na'vi name: tawtsngal meaning "sky cup"), nicknamed the love flower by Terran scientists, is an unusual life-form that has characteristics reminiscent of a jellyfish. It doesn't resemble any taxonomic plant group found on Earth and appears to represent a new line of evolution toward a primitive nervous system. Sensory tissue and a saprophytic lifestyle, where nutrition is obtained from decayed organic matter and dead organisms, place this species somewhere between plants…

I liked the creatures on the movie Avatar, so I made a subspecies of the Thanator for fun. I did not work on the movie. The Eastern Saber Tooth Thanator, is a bit smaller then its cousin the Great Thanaro, but a bit more aggressive and more poisonous. Being smaller means he has to fight harder for competition of survival in Pandora. 2013

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Direhorses (Na'vi name: pa'li) are nectarivores, vaguely horse-like in appearance, with very long necks and small heads. They are roughly the size of an elephant. They are native creatures of Pandora. When wild, the animals move together in a loose herd through the forests, feeding on tree bark and shrubs. Herds numbering in the dozens have been spotted from aircraft, but evidence (including scatological and plant impact) suggests that herds of more than one hundred animals are not uncommon…