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 skull of the gladiator found during the refurbishment of the Yorkshire Museum being held by its curator Andrew Morrison. He was very tall for a Roman, standing at 5ft 10in, and of muscular build. The average height for people living at that time was 5ft 3in. Analysis of the bones, shows that the skeleton was once a powerful, athletic man who was stabbed at least six times in a fatal attack - including a powerful sword blow to the back of the head.