An 81-year-old Montana man who pleaded guilty to creating enormous hybrid sheep clones has received a prison sentence and a ...

Buyers wanted "trophy" animals, and in the world of big-game sheep hunting—which I have just learned is a thing—the Marco Polo argali (ovis ammon polii) is the biggest and gamiest. Argali ...

A rancher from Montana was sentenced to six months in prison on Monday for using parts from protected sheep to create giant ...

Arthur “Jack” Schubarth illegally acquired parts from Marco Polo argali sheep in Kyrgyzstan and imported them into the U.S., where he and others cloned and bred giant sheep hybrids that were then sold ...

Arthur "Jack" Schubarth's crime "ruined his life, reputation and family," his attorneys said. The rancher was sentenced to ...

Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, 81, illegally imported body parts of Marco Polo argali sheep, the world's largest, from Kyrgyzstan, and sent the genetic material to a lab to create cloned embryos ...

The man, Arthur Schubarth, of Vaughn, Mont., illegally used tissue from a Marco Polo argali sheep from Central Asia and the testicles of a bighorn sheep native to the Rocky Mountains to make large ...

Schubarth - who has been in the trophy hunting business since 1987 - successfully cloned a Marco Polo argali sheep using remnants he bought from a hunter who had killed a sheep in Kyrgyzstan in 2019.

The Montana rancher’s illegal scheme began in 2012, when he paid for his son to hunt one of the world’s largest sheep species in ... tissue from a Marco Polo argali, a rare and large species ...

Rancher illegally bought parts of the sheep The rancher illegally brought parts of the Marco Polo argali sheep, one of the largest sheep species in the world, weighing 300 pounds or more ...