User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-74.193.207.108-20120727141847

@Lord Loss but being more powerful than its counterparts doesn't necessarily mean it will outcompete them. Possibly unlike it's counterparts they mate once every couple of years and their gestation period may be much longer. I look at the situation like this dread rathian( which is a terrible monster design) is like the megalodon shark much bigger and stronger than great whites but despite the megalodon's superiority in size and strength it was the great whites that outlasted them. I see the dread rathian's as rare relics of the past that will eventually go extinct.