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).
Real Raptors of similar size and build to the ones in Jurassic Park or Utahraptors (Basically 6 feet in height and 12 feet in length.) could reach top speeds of 25 MPH while tâ¦he much smaller Velociraptor could reach 30-40 mph at top speed.