a video shows a real sea roach.
a video shows a real sea roach.
is this a real ‘sea roach’?
a video of a strange, large insect-like creature occasionally appears on the internet, along with the claim that it shows a creature bearing the evocative name “sea roach”:





































































although there is a real animal nicknamed the sea roach, a marine woodlouse also called a “sea slater”, the creature pictured in this video is not one. this is actually a video of an animatronic creature that was created by the visual effects studio spectral motion for the 2013 movie pacific rim. spectral motion released a video showing the creation these parasitic creatures called “skinmites” which lived on the back of the kaiju:





































































here’s a comparison of the “sea roach” and the kaiju skinmite:





































































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a video purportedly showing a sea roach actually shows an animatronic sea mite from the movie "pacific rim."
a video of a strange, large insect-like creature occasionally appears on the internet, along with the claim that it shows a creature bearing the evocative name “sea roach” the creature pictured in this video is not one. this is actually a video of an animatronic creature that was created by the visual effects studio spectral motion for the 2013 movie pacific rim.