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 ...

One of North America’s most endangered species is getting a new lease on life thanks to technological innovations. This past ...

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 ...

LONDON — Ian Wilmut, the cloning pioneer whose work was critical to the creation of Dolly the Sheep in 1996, has died, the University of Edinburgh in Scotland said Monday. He was 79. Wilmut set off a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sir Ian Wilmut, the scientist who led the team that cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, has died at 79. The University of Edinburgh, where he served as a professor before his 2012 retirement, announced ...

LONDON(Reuters) - The heirs of Dolly the sheep are enjoying a healthy old age, proving cloned animals can live normal lives and offering reassurance to scientists hoping to use cloned cells in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. LONDON (AP) — Ian Wilmut, the cloning ...

LONDON — Ian Wilmut, the cloning pioneer whose work was critical to the creation of Dolly the Sheep in 1996, has died at age 79. The University of Edinburgh in Scotland said Wilmut died Sunday after a ...