User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-6050823-20140727180054/@comment-21371438-20140729135458

i had lots of theories over Magala, but most people kinda never listened to me >. >

first, if Shagaru is that powerful that it risks to destroy the ecosystem, then very little of them must reach such a power, it should be unlikely that it's just "from baby to adult", (and i don't think baby Daoras or Miralis would be vulnerable to shock traps or get hungry), so... i think it's a very very fast evolution.

Magalas are somehow Dragonlike, but share the same features as Wyverns and "mortal creatures", they hunger, they can fall in traps, they are affected by tranquilizers, plus the Title (even if the titles are given by "people of that age with their own way to study biology" -as in, not enough instruments to study it molecularly etc.-, let's just trust them, ne?)

my theory was that Magalas are a strange species of Dragonlike Wyverns, that, met some circumstances (if not "selected from birth") mutate or evolve in the white god of the mountain, a bit like a Great Jaggi becomes bigger than its normal male counterparts and female one (female Jaggis are even greater than males, to point out how drastic is the Great Jaggi mutation)

another interesting idea came out after reading a book

we know Shagaru Magala was known by "ancient legends", so... they actually existed, long time ago, but yet, no traces of Gore Magalas, how so?

my (other) idea is that Shagaru are prehistoric "Gore Magalas", who, after years of evolutions, lost lots of their own original features (a bit like Dinosaurs ended up being birds... evolution isn't necessarily from weaker to stronger, it tends to balance creatures)

some of them might suffer of Atavism, that is "features from ancient times manifesting in rare individuals of the latest generations"

maybe not-so-exaggerated like "from new generations to a weaker version of what was" (wasn't Shagaru said to be slightly different from the legends?), but Atavism exists even in the real world, Snakes with tiny arms and Dolphins with 4 fins (2 of them vestigial of course)

well, i'm ready to be dung-lapidated by all of you who read this, but before getting yelled at, i want you all to read and think, these are just theories.