User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-201.241.223.8-20130424001920/@comment-4009941-20130424013441

It is said that hunters are humans with exceptional strength including hunters that get allowed to G-rank are considered very unusualy strong.

About monsters shell and scales being hard I do htink the fact that some shell and scale descriptions do states that some are as hard and strong as metal. Though Khezu skin mayby it can mainly be thick fat blocking. I don't got many excuses for some monsters. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fJXHXs5TvY  Tigrex and Rathalos VS modern weapons? anyway realisticly id think Tigrex would be dead kinda fast from all that. Considered canon or not no say from capcom as far as i know trust me I searched but monsters sure hate modern weapons somehow this was in the games story about some Pirate ship that passed the island and a dragon attacked and surprise its a MH Wyvern on the island)

Alot of monsters like Gravios and Diablos hate flying on monster hunter though they are able their bodys are very heavy and they seem to only fly when in a problem since I guess it strains them alot

According to Capcom alot of the monsters ancestors like Flying Wyvern, Bird Wyvern and Brute Wyvern(Capcom said their just plane Theropods anyway) are just Dinosaurs its possibly the same for the Elder Dragons but no word about that from Capcom. And there is normal earth animals in MH and areas were monsters don't even live and are unheard of to the point of a Rathalos being only a story in some places.

Sandfish Lizard is a example for sand movement speed> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzt1iJbwNXE