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.

Montana Mountain King, a cloned Marco Polo argali sheep, at the center of a federal Lacey Act case that resulted in an 81-year-old man being sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Photo courtesy of ...

(AP) - A Montana rancher illegally used tissue and testicles from wild sheep killed by hunters in central Asia and the U.S. to breed “giant” hybrid sheep for sale to private hunting preserves in Texas ...