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).
The common buzzard measures between 40 and 58 cm (16 and 23 in) in length with a 109â136 cm (43â54 in) wingspan and a body mass of 427â1,364 g (0.941â3.007 lb), making it a medium-sized raptor.