CMSâs RAI Version 3.0 Manual CH 4: CAA Process and Care Planning. of the MDS related to nutritional status (Section K). When it is completed, the MDS provides a. foundation for a more thorough assessment and the development of an individualized care plan.
But birds can be very colorful. There is mounting evidence that birds are related to dinosaurs. In fact, in a National Geographic article (v. 196, no. 5, p. 98-99) on feathered dinosaurs, C. Sloan (1999) paints T. rex hatchlings with feathers. Some dinosaurs may have been colorful.
At right, asymmetrical flight feathers are present in a fossil of a dromaeosaurid that may have had the ability to glide. Another line of evidence comes from changes in the digits of the dinosaurs leading to birds. The first theropod dinosaurs had hands with small fifth and fourth digits and a long second digit.