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 ...

Readers of a certain age might remember Dolly, a Finn-Dorset sheep born in 1996 to three mothers and some proud Scottish scientists. Dolly generated global headlines just by being alive, as she was ...

A Montana man pleaded guilty in connection with a scheme to create “massive” hybrid sheep, feds say. Getty Images/istockphoto The owner of a Montana ranch had the largest sheep on Earth cloned to ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The way the federal agents swarmed Jack Schubarth’s ranch in Montana on a ...

GREAT FALLS, Mont. — An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to ...

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 ...