User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-74.177.199.246-20121009210216/@comment-5020152-20121027185648

@AWC: I think the hibernating Gobul theory's been proposed, and answered, already.

But what if MH3 and MHP3 take place in different time periods? In MHP3, the Deserted Island's aquatic ecosystem could have been wiped out by some disaster, and the Flooded Forest could have had a similar phenomenon.