Montana rancher Arthur "Jack" Schubarth, 81, succeeded in cloning a wild Marco Polo argali sheep, the world's largest ovine species. That achievement cost him six months in jail.

Legal documents allege that in 2015 Schubarth paid a deposit of $4,200 to enter into a “ovine cloning contract” to clone the Marco Polo argali sheep illegally trafficked into the US.

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, to the U.S., court records show.

"Argali sheep are trophy hunted due to their large size and unique long spiraling horns," court documents said. "Argali horns are the largest of any wild sheep." Argali sheep have a market value of ...

Schubarth implanted the argali sheep embryos in ewes on his 215-acre alternative livestock ranch in Vaughn, Montana, the release states. One ewe gave birth to a pure, genetic male Marco Polo ...

The Marco Polo sheep is a subspecies of argali, the largest living wild sheep. Paulo Fassani via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0 A rancher from Montana was sentenced to six months in prison on Monday ...

An 81-year-old man from Vaughn, Montana, was sentenced to six months in prison Monday for Lacey Act violations stemming from almost a decade of illegal sheep importing, cloning, and breeding on his ...

Sheep containing just 25-percent Marco Polo argali DNA fetched $15,000-per-head, while animals produced by MMK’s son, Montana Black Magic, sold for $10,000 each.

This time, the argali material looked good, so Schubarth signed a "cell storage agreement" with an unnamed cloning firm in January 2013 and shipped the somatic cells off to storage. It took until ...

In May 2017, a single, pure genetic male Marco Polo argali sheep that Mr. Schubarth named Montana Mountain King was born, prosecutors said.

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, to the U.S., court records show.

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 ...