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The author hypothesizes that “overdoses” on plants called angiosperms could’ve caused the sudden extinction of all dinosaurs. She bases this on the fact that dinosaurs couldn’t taste the plant’s bitterness or detoxify its poison, and that many dinosaur fossils are found in unusual and contorted positions.
The author assumes that the fossils’ contorted positions are caused by poisoning from angiosperms, without considering other possible explanations for their positions.
The author assumes that, just because dinosaurs couldn’t avoid angiosperms by tasting their bitterness, they couldn’t avoid them at all. She thus assumes that dinosaurs were eating any angiosperms, a point which is never established.
She also assumes that angiosperms, which were “potentially lethal,” were deadly enough to cause the immediate extinction of all dinosaurs.
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