(breakdown of what is canon/what is not further down in this comment) *TIMESTAMPS* 00:00 - Intro 01:17 - Flying Wyverns 02:40 - The Basics of Phylogeny 03:45 - Sauriscia 04:23 - Nonalisopoda 05:58 - Dracopoda 07:41 - True Foot Wyvern 08:23 - False Foot Wyvern 10:20 - Shell Wyvern 11:35 - Carapace Wyvern 15:45 - Strange Wyvern 17:20 - Electric Wing Wyvern 18:33 - Unordered Superfamilies 22:53 - Outro UPDATE: The Sunbreak Lore Book just released, and it reveals that Espinas is in fact NOT closely related to the Carapace Wyvern. Instead, it has its own standalone Superfamily within Dracopoda. *What is inarguably canon?* - The phylogenetic tree itself (except Espinas). Capcom releases one with every artbook, and the one in this video is based on the phylogeny presented in the Rise Artbook, as well as its translation by BannedLagiacrus (see sources below). - The Wyvern Rex. - Biology facts about the Monsters (e.g. Astalos' Wings) *What is an educated guess/moderate changes?* - Some of the Infraorder/Superfamily names are altered. Nonalisopoda, True Foot Wyvern and False Foot Wyvern are simply called "Unknown", Dracopoda is called "Wyvern Feet". - The Placement of Espinas. We know from Frontier that it is closely related to Gravios and Diablos, but since the Sunbreak Artbook isn't out yet, we don't know for sure. - The Characteristics of the Infraorders. Most of them are easily observable, but it's important to note that they are not explicitly stated in any text as of yet. *What is entirely made up?* - The taxonomic names for individual species (e.g nargacuga tenebris). They do not exist officially, I just thought they'd be cool and non-intrusive. *SOURCES* Hunter's Encyclopedia G, III, IV Monster Hunter World: Complete Works Monster Hunter Illustrations Monster Hunter Rise Official Design Works Phylogenetic Tree based on BannedLagi's translations found here: twitter.com/BannedDino/status/1483853487310053377

You're still doing these? I bumped into your World videos and drank them up like water. I thought you were done but praise almighty Zinogre you're still in it! I absolutely love the zoological approach and the coherent scientific nomenclature you create to fill in the gaps. I feel World enriched the MH franchise this way and you further enrich it with content like this.

A gem among mh lore videos. Much appreciate the hard work!

This was great, would love to see more phylogenetic trees in the future. IHaveNoIdeaWhatToDoWithThisInformation/10

2:13 THANK YOU! I recently was having an argument with someone who didn't think Akantor was a flying wyvern, simply because, "they're called flying wyverns for a reason". When I pointed out the members that couldn't fly, they then changed it to "they have to have wings", and completely ignored the vestigle remnants on Akantor's arms

I cannot thank you enough for never using the term "Pseudowyvern" during this entire video. People are so adament in using it, they have forgotten that it is just a fan invented term. Thanks for this video!

While my Phylogenetic tree would look a bit different, as example (that fits in your tree), Espinas would be a shell wyvern that convergently evolved a hard shell, as there are a lot of similarities between it and the raths (like wing and plate structures). And on a more personal tree, i would also include other species/ classes of monster in the tree, as in my personal headcannon the classification of the guild are more for the hunters to understand, and might be outdated in game and would be outdated with our modern perspective. This is not to be seen as a negative tho, rather to further discussion, because the video was absolutely fantastic. Keep up the good work on the documentary like MH videos.

I friggin love how diverse and expansive this class of monsters are, its often the case with fantasy monster types that there's an even distribution of types or families, but with how natural world driven this game series is it feels right that Flying Wyverns are commonly dominant like dinosaurs were in our past or mammals now. Wait actually, they are basically as diverse as birds, just also on the scale of dominant apex predators and mega herbivores no islands required. I never get tired of seeing them either cause they have so many different sub classes. My playthrough of MH Stories 2 for the most part was dominated by Flying wyverns. Diablos was my most reoccurring choice alongside Tigrex.

This was fantastic, it's easy to forget just how many iconic monsters belong in each tree. I hope the other major trees are in the works!

Your ecology videos give me a whole new appreciation for Monster Hunter

There are some issues with this phylogenetic tree. And that is that it doesn't seem to take in account for the wing structure itself which is far more telling than whether or not the monsters' is using its forelimb to walk or not. And so the monsters in the flying wyvern tree should first be divided by how many digits are used in the wing membrane and how many digits are free from the wing membrane. For example, Diablos, Akantor, Ukanlos, Nargacuga, Tigrex, Barioth, and Gigginox all have 3 digits not used to make the wing.

I found this channel a little while ago and I have to say that the amount of detail and effort that goes into these videos is unprecedented. I am genuinely in awe every time I watch one of your video. keep up the good work dude, here's to your inevitable popularity 🍺

Hi, as a fan of MH and a naturalist/marine biologist I love these contents. One suggestion for the next videos, if you plan to do more: the binomial scientific name is written with the first letter of the genus name in uppercase, for example, Astalos viridis, Rath regalis. Is a detail that may add more "realism" to the video.

Appreciate all the hard works that went into these lore/ecology videos. They're a great source of inspiration for me. Totally would enjoy a 2 hour long podcast of you just talking MH lore.

gosh, I've been wanting to see a possible MH evolutionary tree for a long time thank you for delivering with the flying wyvern category. I'm looking forward to more if you do more.

Other Flying Wyverns: Why can’t you be normal? Akantor and Ukanlos: (SCREAMS IN NO WINGS)

The amount of care and dedication is astounding amazing video.

Did not expect a entire video about the classifications, gotta respect it. Imma listen to this while playing Rise xD

I love this kind of video, its just so interesting to watch. please do one of these on brute wyverns!

Well done! This was a fun and insightful video covering the various types of flying wyverns. Can't wait to see your work covering the other classifications of "monster" types.

Would love to see more Phylogeny of the other monster groups

Ooh going for a more taxonomy-focused series as well, interesting (and should let you cover Monsters that aren't prominently featured as much)

I was ready for Lava Caverns material but got something even better and not know how much i need it, Great job as always man. If may i ask, what group of monsters gonna be next?

I heard that the mysterious Unknown Black Flying Wyvern from the Mezeporta region was recently named by the guild. Supposedly it is called “Ra Ro”. Maybe someday you can do a documentary on animals from that region!

My goodness, this is incredible! I love it! Keep up the good work.

Hope you do a video similar to this on brute wyverns

These videos remind me why I love this franchise, they give a reason for why these monsters are the way they are

This is awesome you should do leviathans next

I loooove how like tierzoo makes videos that make life seem like we are playing a game you make monster hunter documentaries like we are living in the world

Something I find interesting is that bazelgeuse is the only monster with more then 6 digits per limbs, going easily over 20. This just seems to be too much a change in morphology to be believable for me and I honestly think they will have to retcon this at some point and give it just 6 fingers on its wings. This would also be in my opinion necessary if they ever make a bazelgeuse seregios hybrid.

Thanks a lot for getting this out so soon:) was really looking forward to it

As a Monster Hunter fan i love your videos , thanks for the upload

I hope you'll do a Bird Wyverns in the future, they are my favorite group especially the Raptors!

Between you and Unnatural History Museum, the amount of incredible scientific videos of the monster hunter series is simply awesome! Fantastic work, and an excellent video idea. Hope to see more soon!

I hope you do all the beast ones together. Then again it might be easier to do all fanged members instead.

I know I’ve taken a long time to say this, but are you ever going to consider doing a video on the Leviathan or perhaps the herbivore maybe I mean I just love watching and listening to your videos a lot and I mean a lot

My personal opinion is that bazelguese is a separate superfamily, as it it has similar wing structure to the true flying wyverns, but it's specializes scales don't fit any already existing clade. Meanwhile, I believe the the sharp, triangular bladescales of seregios are reminiscent of thorn wyverns, adapted for offense instead of defense, so it is either a subset of thorn wyverns, or a member of the bazelguese superfamily, which I will call detaching scale wyverns.

Great video! I really like the idea of seeing the whole family explained like this

For Espinas, I always had the theory that their multiple element fire balls were a result of using the same chambered sac the Gravios/Basarios use- just with their mouth. They probably diverged around the time their special sacs developed

Awesome work! Really good addition to the lore

The amount of work you put here is... Simply amazing. Great video, that every single MH fan interested in Ecology should watch 100%

This was a heck of an undertaking, and a treat to watch! Thanks for putting the work in.

I like how you made scientific names for all the wyverns in the video. It makes it more like a proper documentary.

Bro you are doing better at showing off Monster Hunters monsters than the whole series and explaining things the lore should

This was excellent, really hope we get to see more of these

Hope oceaniz does more of these monster class explanations. Elder dragons or brute wyverns maybe?

Really nice work here man! The timestamps helped well too

I think you left out some species of flying wyverns such as the new mhrise flying wyverns but its understandsble since they came up not long ago, excellent job I love your videos

I hope you keep making these

Will you be doing this for the other types of wyverns? Fascinating stuff. Love your work.

Thank you for making this content! helps keep entertained during the troubling times of the world

I’ll never understand how Ukanlos and Akantor are flying wyverns lmao. Always thought they should be elder dragons and if not they definitely should be a different type of species.

Love this format of video! You did a great job ^_^

Amazing work!

Wow, I thinks this is the best video you did

Looking at this i have found that some other monsters could Fit in these trees like the nergigante could be a shell Wyvern or another family completely, called something like regenerative armor Wyvern, given that they damage and lose their scales but can also regrow and harden them enough to count as a secondary skin, at least that Is my idea

i wonder what the guild thought of classifying flying wyvern cause it would have been confusing to find out that not all flying wyvern fly that must have been confusing

This was neat to watch. I wonder how you would do this to the Bird Wyverns or other creatures like Glavenus or Gammoth.

Loved this, great work!

I thought there were more flying wyverns, but it looks like you got them all!

If the time of Bird Wyvern came, Pukei-Pukei has to be pointed out its wing structure.

What’s your opinion on the Pukei-Pukei and Yian Garuga actually being Flying Wyverns and not Bird Wyverns?

Do you know what something I just realize? You only use monsters from the main line games in these documentaries, kind of makes me wonder if in the future you will include monsters from the games, unique to the east and spinoffs. It would be cool to see a true family tree that way.

isnt the last bit about convergent evolution a bit wrong? I mean both of these Wyverns are obviously related as they are both Dracopoda? Wouldnt Convergent Evolution usually refer to way more distant animals getting similiar traits (Like Birds and Bats getting wings to fly)

Nitpick but it's SauriscHia with an H. Excellent amazing video as always

Nicely done. Ive found other channels covering this topic tend to be too rigid and conventional in their rationale. Monsters evolved entirely separate from earth life. They arent simply ‘dinosaurs’ or ‘mammals’ they are entirely alien clades their similarities are analogous not homologous to earth organisms.

Hey, in the future, could you do a similar video to this but make the family tree about real-world biology. For example, the nargacuga and barrioth are clearly relatives of cats. And the paolumu is obviously a bat.

Beautiful as always :)

Don't forget the piscine wyvern, they are a unique one too

My theory is that the espinas could be a closer relative to the rath family since their usage of poison are similar

I would have figured Seregios would have been under armor or thorn wyvern. It's interesting that they're classified so far away from the Espinas.

I feel like Legiana and Astalos are more related than this tree implies, they also have an expanding head wing that contracts for seemingly no reason other than temperature regulation, and has an insectoid body similar both in shape and texture to Astalos. While I'm sure you did this because Legiana was only recently discovered, it just fits too well. It's also weird for the entire family to be designated by a single organ (astalos' kinesiosac) when there are many features that are too similar to ignore. I say we call this order the Insect Flying Wyvern super family, characterized by their insectoid features in addition to their elemental sacs that are effected by their physical activity (As Legiana's frost sac is what let's it secrete ice through the rest of the body and mainly the chest.)

PLS DO BIRD WYVERNS NEXT

I suggest Bird Wyverns or Fanged Beasts next.

If you doing more of there please try to do the elder dragons as more o a list for the last one and next please try fanged wyvers

I'm curious to see what you've concocted

what about fanged wyverns? isnt there a posibility that they might be related to the nonalisopoda?

Keep up the incredible and amazing work.

Thank you for your hard work, we appreciate it.

Amazing!

Great video and I love the blend of natural history and fiction. My only question is regarding sauriscia. Did you intentionally change that? Because the real word is Saurischia with an 'h' and because it's a Greek root word it's pronounced saur-iss-key-ah not saur-iss-she-ah like you did. These are incredibly minor nitpick but just wondering if they were accidental or intential changes to the real life analogous word.

I personally would have put legiana and astalos, seregios and bazel in shell wyverns

Great as always.

I loved this

Beautiful video ☺️😊🤩

I'm still confused to why paolumu is a flying wyvern and pukei-pukei is a bird wyvern. They are so similar to each other...

I'm into paleontology and couldn't figure out what Sauriscia was cuz I'd never heard it said that way and Assumed I was reading it wrong

Are the leviathans the next tree explored

Why the hell are the forklift and shivel chins flying wyverns,zenoger and magnamalo have the exact same "wing" bones as them

Where do you get all this info from???

Could the modern day wyverian be genetically related to the mondern day bishatan species.

Dude your vids are so cool David Atenboro ain't got shit on this channel.

I have to ask if you had a specific source for this or not. I ask because this is not at all how i would expect this to he made. I would have gone hased on bod h type for the base infraorder like how seregios and astalos have a near ieentical body structure. I feel this woupd be more accurate to the reality of how evolutionary lines work.

I wonder where Scalebat fit

Are wyverns related to dragons? 22:50 But they are related, they're part of the same order and have common ancestors.

Paolumu and Barioth all the way!

Wait what about Valstrax tho?

I THOUGHT BAZELGUESE WAS PRONOUNCED BASIL-JUICE LIKE THE STAR BETELGEUSE

Came here for Naruto the ocean cut, stayed here for monster hunter ecology

Please do generation monsters ecology Please