【The Exotic Time Machine (1998)】

What in God's name is The Exotic Time Machine (1998)this feathered dinosaur King doing in a chicken coop? Somebody call the poultry police.

Apparently, the behemoth chicken in the below tweet is not, as one might suspect, a human in chicken costume -- it's a real life scary AF chicken. It just happens to have the legs of a Tyrannosaurus wearing flares, okay?

Behold: The ultimate chicken killing machine.

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If you look closely, you'll see there's a second, equally terrifying death bird hiding underneath the coop -- presumably waiting for the perfect moment to strike. It should go without saying that Twitter is shook by the chook.

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Naturally, Twitter users suspected fowl play (sorry). But because everyone on Twitter is an eggs-pert, it didn't take long for an explanation to present itself. According to some Twitter speculators, the monstrous chicken overlord is a brahma chicken A.K.A. the "King of all poultry" according to the Livestock Conservancy.

Brahma chickens have been known to reached the weights of 13-14 pounds for females and 17 to 18.25 pounds for males. While controversy exists about the origins of the breed, the Conservancy writes that the breed was "developed in America from very large fowls imported from China via the port of Shanghai."

This particular giant dog-sized chicken seems to belong to a guy called Fitim Sejfijaj, who posted the video to a Kosovo-based Facebook group called Shpeztaria Dekorative, which translates to "decorative poultry." If Facebook's translator is anything to go by, the chicken's name seems to be "Merakli" (not "Brutus the killer" or "Bigass Mother Clucker" as you might imagine), and it's receiving plenty of praise from fellow chicken lovers.

What a specimen. Please spare our lives, Merakli.

[h/t Pickle]

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