These efforts allowed the University to "escape extinction", according to Sir Daniel Wilson.

They did not know that they had escaped extinction by the skin of their incisors.

In the film, the H-bomb blast awakens and irradiates a dinosaur that has somehow escaped extinction.

Tribal colleges, he said, strive to give American Indians a quality education while teaching them to preserve and enhance their understanding of a culture that has narrowly escaped extinction.

With only 2,000 breeding pairs left in the US, reintroduction programmes are seen as vital if it is to escape extinction as a result of local disasters.

It is, the paper said, what intelligent life might look like in a world where dinosaurs had had the luck to escape extinction.

All of them, though, look like good bets to escape extinction.

One of the few exceptions is the 143-year-old sugar refinery, a gloomy, dark-brick building that seems like a dinosaur that escaped extinction.

The scuttlers had been offered a chance to escape extinction, but the price of that deal had been opening the door to the shadows.

Though these whales have escaped extinction, they are rare and difficult to study, spending much of their lives in the depths of remote oceans.