The rediscovery of the Leadbeater’s Possum
The man who rediscovered the Leadbeater’s Possum in 1961 after it was declared extinct for more than 50 years was honoured in a ceremony in 2011 at the Melbourne Museum exactly 50 years after its rediscovery. Eric Wilkinson was a 22-year-old assistant to the curator of fossils at the Melbourne Museum at the time of …