Schubarth sold and bred mountain sheep, mountain goats and similar breeds at his 215-acre ranch in Vaughn, Mont. He began his effort to clone the Marco Polo argali in 2013, working with at least ...

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.

In his request for the probationary sentence, Schubarth's attorney said cloning the giant Marco Polo sheep hunted in Kyrgyzstan has ruined his client's “life, reputation and family.”. Marco ...

Schubarth’s attorney, Jason Holden, said cloning the giant Marco Polo sheep hunted in Kyrgyzstan in 2013 has ruined his client’s “life, reputation and family.” “I think this has broken ...

The skulls of two Marco Polo sheep in the Wakhan Corridor of north-eastern Afghanistan, 2004. (Photo by Scott Wallace/Getty Images) ...

File photo showing the skulls of two Marco Polo sheep in the Wakhan Corridor of northeastern Afghanistan. Photo: Scott Wallace (Getty Images) An 80-year-old man in Montana pleaded guilty Tuesday ...

A Montana rancher has been sentenced to six months in prison after cloning a "near threatened" sheep from Asia and then selling its offspring to shooting preserves, according to court documents.

Marco Polo argali sheep are internationally protected as an endangered species. Additionally, they are prohibited in Montana to protect the native sheep population.

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — 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 ...

Marco Polo argali sheep have distinctive spiraling horns and can weigh more than 300 pounds. They are big prizes for trophy hunters, who travel to Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Mongolia to hunt them.