Eggs are highly nutritious food, rich in proteins.
Even the shell provides calcium carbonate. Evidence for predation is rare in the fossil record. Egg predators today include jackals, hyenas, primates, vultures, crows, gulls, and lizards and snakes. It is likely that egg predation also occurred during the reign of the dinosaurs. Potential Egg raiders Mammals Small 'furry' rodent-like animals are often pictured in books, feasting on dinosaur eggs.