Analyzing The Creature Design of James Cameron's Avatar
James Cameron's Avatar hasn't been on anyone's minds for a long, long time. Not since its initial release in 2009, before I even started walking, has it had much media hype or visibility in the years after the massive amount of hype it generated died down. And so it remained, until a little while ago, when a long awaited sequel was finally announced. Avatar: The Way of Water , putting the franchise back into the popular zeitgeist for a bit. A trailer for the latest film I have heard that the designs of the alien fauna living on Pandora are supposed to be heavily grounded in realistic biology, which was my favorite part of the film, and I've seen others review them before , so the evolutionary biology enthusiast in me had to check it out, and, hopefully, construct a coherent phylogeny from these creatures. Pandora as seen from space. The clouds of Polyphemus churn in the background. To start, we should probably look at the environment in which they live. Pan