Gigantism and acromegaly are two disorders with the same disease mechanism and somewhat similar presentations. Even though they have the same disease mechanism, the two have entirely different outcome simply due to the age of onset. Gigantism is the result if the disease mechanism starts in childhood.
Adult Velociraptors grew up to 6.8 feet (2 meters) long, 1.6 feet (0.5 meter) tall at the hip and weighed up to 33 pounds (15 kilograms).
Velociraptor was much smaller than depicted in Jurassic Park, and they had feathers. They were six feet long and two feet tall, and lived in the desert of Mongolia, hunting dinosaurs such as Protoceratops, about 70 million years ago.