There is no evidence that dinosaurs went extinct because of predation on their eggs. The controversy over the cause of the dinosaur extinction continues among paleontologists. However, evidence from a deep sea core drilled off the coast of Florida proves that an asteroid hit the Earth at the end of the Cretaceous which caused the dinosaur extinction. Most dinosaur specialists are willing to accept that an asteroid hit the Earth, but do not think that it was the sole cause of the Mesozoic extinctions. Instead, the fossil record reveals that dinosaurian diversity was already in decline by the end of the Cretaceous.
Archaeologists dig up dinosaurs.
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