User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-2248808-20110826032448/@comment-4344186-20110828233353

If it was a subspecies or one or the other was branched off of each other.. wouldn't the rathian be a descendant of ancient rather than the other way around? So the rathian would be a combination or a evolved state of the ancient. But why would evolution make the rathian a weaker species?