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[Cloverfield][Pacific Rim] Is Clover a kaiju?

Because of there striking resemblance, Is it possible that Clover's was simply a scout kaiju before the aliens fully invested in a wormhole to earth?
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Here are a few things you should know, biologically and semantically.

Clover was a baby.  The United States government has confirmed with the release of information from the lawsuits against *Tagruato Company* that the monster Clover is genetically similar to a large carcass they found dead in the Arctic Circle, uncovered after global warming left the ice melted.  After measuring the ages of both creatures, and identifying genetics, we know now that there have been creatures on Earth like Clover for at least millions of years.  All evidence points to Clover having been on Earth for a long, long time, and was sleeping when it was awakened by *Tagruato Company*.

The Kaiju that came through the portal in the Pacific are all clones.  In addition, they were all created at roughly the same period because they couldn't survive in Earth's atmosphere.  There are two issues here: would any animals that aren't part of the incoming Pacific portal Kaiju?  And, if the Kaiju and their masters could not survive in Earth pre-humanity, how did Clover and its mother?

Suffice it to say that Clover is not a Kaiju in the sense that it is a genetic clone to the rest, and that it did not come from the place the Kaiju came from.  It does, however, share many similarities (ancient age, gigantic size, resilience to traditional military weapons, hostility to humanity) and could be classified as a Kaiju if we use Kaiju as a word meaning "giant monster".