A sentencing memorandum submitted by the defense congratulated Arthur "Jack" Schubarth of Vaughn, Montana, for successfully cloning the sheep in his barn, which he named Montana Mountain King.

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 create hybrid sheep ...

Man in court accused of cloning largest sheep in the world for trophy hunters An 81-year-old Montana man is expected to be sentenced for using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Asia ...

Montana Mountain King, a sheep cloned from near threatened Marco Polo argali sheep as part of an unlawful scheme to create large, hybrid sheep for hunting in the US.

A sentencing memorandum submitted by the defense congratulated Arthur "Jack" Schubarth of Vaughn, Montana, for successfully cloning the sheep in his barn, which he named Montana Mountain King.

The determined sheep had completely taken over Mountain Drive in Santa Barbara, presenting residents with an abnormal traffic ...

The sentencing memorandum also congratulates Schubarth for successfully cloning the endangered sheep, which he named Montana Mountain King.

An 81-year-old Montana man faces sentencing in federal court Monday in Great Falls for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep.

In the end, he got a single live individual, a perfect copy of the sheep hunted in Central Asia. He named that animal Montana Mountain King, or MMK, for short.

"Montana Mountain King," the cloned sheep, in December 2023. Credit: US DOJ Soon, Schubarth was up to his eyeballs in sheep semen (metaphorically, though perhaps literally as well).