User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter: World Discussion/@comment-25083735-20191105005322/@comment-31029678-20191110101200

I don't know, the official ecological tree is the closest thing we have to an official confirmation, it isn't made to follow the classifications, it's made to follow the relation between species.

They put a lot of efforts there; heck, we even got branches just for Godbugs and Flashbugs that surely nobody asked for. I find it hard to believe they rushed the Elder's tree, if they were truly unrelated they would have done what they did for Nerscylla.

Considering that Elders are odd creatures that stand outside of the regular animal kingdom even by MH standards and considering how they all drop the same of blood.... I wouldn't find strange that Kirin, Kushala, Yama and Dalamadur may be distant relatives.

As much the MH teams try to give realistic explanations, MH still remain pseudo-realistic...