If you were old enough to watch the news or read the paper back in the late 1990s, you very likely remember Dolly, the cloned sheep. Born in 1996, the researchers responsible for cloning her kept it ...

The Marco Polo argali sheep is the biggest sheep in the world. These creatures, native to Central Asia, can weigh up to 300 pounds, and they sport on their heads massive, heavy spiraling horns that ...

A Montana rancher was charged with illegally selling offspring from a cloned sheep across state lines. The retail value of the transported animals is $250,000 to $550,000, per court documents. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: Montana Mountain King; Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks/A.P. Montana rancher Arthur "Jack" Schubarth, 81, ...

Over the course of nearly a decade, a Montana ranch owner and at least five other people conspired to clone sheep and create a larger hybrid species of what is already considered the world’s largest ...

A Montana man has been sentenced to six months in prison — and slapped with over $24,000 in fines — for breeding and selling clones of an enormous, Frankenstein’s monster of a sheep. Department of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HELENA, Mont. (AP) — An 81-year-old Montana ...

Twenty years ago today, a woolly little farm animal named Dolly was born. And she forever changed our sense of the possibilities of science. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST) SIEGEL: It is a rare ...

With all the work to do, people to see, traffic jams to get stuck in, we all sometimes wish we could be in two places at once. We’ve already cloned sheep, cows, chickens, even monkeys. What if we ...

A British biologist named John Gurdon won a Nobel Prize for discovering that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become “pluripotent.” That means mature cells can be converted into stem cells, so ...

An 81-year-old Montana man faces sentencing for cloning a giant Marco Polo sheep using illegally trafficked tissue and testicles. A sentencing memorandum submitted by the defense congratulated Arthur ...