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).
Based on a skeleton excavated from African sands, this super croc would have been 12 metres (40 feet) in length. Its skull alone measures nearly two metres. It weighed between 80 and 100 tons, making it bigger than a train carriage.