"escape extinction" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a behavior modification technique in which a previously reinforced behavior is no longer rewarded, leading to a decrease in that behavior. Here is an example of how it can be used in a sentence: "The child's tantrum behavior was addressed using escape extinction, where the previously rewarded behavior of screaming for attention was no longer met with attention from the parents."
Defying Muller's Ratchet: Ancient heritable endobacteria escape extinction through retention of recombination and genome plasticity.
She was the American representative to Botanic Gardens Conservation International, a 120-nation organization dedicated to help 100,000 endangered plants escape extinction.
We consider mechanisms by which viruses could escape extinction by lethal mutagenesis, and provide evidence that mutational robustness is unlikely to be one of them.
Opponents of the endangered listing are working to remove wolves from the list, as conservationists complain that there isn't a sufficient number to escape extinction.
They generate evolutionary models that explain how altruistic motivations escape extinction.
Both phenomena create new opportunities for the species that escape extinction.
This is an alternate history, however, taking place in a world where dinosaurs escaped extinction.
The discovery of P. bilottei sp. nov in the Santonian indicates that the genus Pseudorhapydionina escaped extinction during the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary (CTB) event in the Pyrenean bioprovince.
European Bison (Bison bonasus) barely escaped extinction in the early 20th century and now only occur in small isolated herds scattered across Central and Eastern Europe.
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.
He and three colleagues write that the bird on the tape was almost certainly a common pileated woodpecker and that there is simply no conclusive evidence that the ivory bill has escaped extinction.
