What does your Avatar/Profile Picture mean?

I recently changed mine to a saltwater crocodile hiding in the water. I felt like it was time for a change, and the saltwater crocodile is my favorite species of crocodile.
 
My avatar picture was updated to match the National Geographic Logo alongside with the words inside the logo almost very similar to what you see in every National Geographic magazine.
 
I like this idea for a thread. My avatar/profile picture is of a skull of an Eocene (Bridgerian to Uintan) dinocerate mammal Eobasileus cornutus. I took that photograph at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois in 2014. Pardon my tangent there, but they had an impressive collection and nice displays in Fossil Halls.
 
Mine currently is a Montezuma Quail, a species that isn't very widely kept in captivity. I chose it because I thought it was a good picture and when I went up to the glass with my camera, he tilted his head in curiosity, which I found very cute.
 
My profile pic is a picture of me and the boys (I'm the one at the fourth place from the left) with Mount Merapi in the background. We went into different schools; The one in the middle went to a school in Tangerang, two that wear blue jacket went to the same school, and I don't know about the glassess dude. We still communicate in the WA group. I really hope I meet them again in the future.
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
I'd actually never heard of this species until your comment so thank you for that.

Brilliant name and beautiful minibeast indeed.
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It was only officially described earlier in the year by one of Museums Victoria’s arachnogists, Joseph Schubert, he has described tons of jumping spiders and has at least 10 more in the works including a new genus!
 
Yoshistar888 said:
It was only officially described earlier in the year by one of Museums Victoria’s arachnogists, Joseph Schubert, he has described tons of jumping spiders and has at least 10 more in the worlds including a new genus!
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What an amazing discovery to have made ! It is such a beautiful species and the patterns on its back do indeed look like a view of the night sky with stars and nebulae and such.
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
What an amazing discovery to have made ! It is such a beautiful species and the patterns on its back do indeed look like a view of the night sky with stars and nebulae and such.
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The inspiration from naming not only came from the fact that it looks light the night sky but both the texture and colours of the palette look eerily similar to the famous painting, Starry Starry Night, by Vincent Van Gough.
 
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