Dinosaur Egg

Dinosaur Eggs are dropped by raptors, which can be found roaming Primeval Forest planets. While the description suggests extracting Dinosaur Eggs for Research, an even better way of using them is putting them in an incubator, which will result in a baby raptor hatching.

If you want the hatchling to grow up, you'll have to feed it raw steak. This is done by selecting the item in your inventory and hitting the Q key, throwing it out of your inventory. After having eaten 3-5 steaks, the raptor will grow up, allowing you to attack and capture it using a Capture Pod or be a monster and kill It for a chance to get either more Dinosaur Eggs or just lose a perfectly good raptor.

There are multiple types of Dinosaur Eggs available, each hatching a different kind of raptor, but all of them are indistinguishable from each other when looking at them in the inventory. Another strange thing is that eggs dropped by one species of raptor can hatch an entirely different species.