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A Rancher Smuggled Exotic DNA to Create a Super Sheep. Then, the Feds Came Calling.
The Marco Polo sheep, native to Central Asia, is the largest species of sheep in the world, which makes it a tantalizing target for trophy hunters. For nearly a decade, Montana ranchers illegally ...
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The US Has a Cloned Sheep Contraband Problem
Court documents allege that Arthur Schubarth trafficked body parts of a near threatened Marco Polo argali sheep into the US from Kyrgyzstan and in 2015 contracted with a lab to create a cloned ...
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Man faces prison time after cloning creatures for illegal hunting scheme: 'Exemplifies the serious threat that wildlife trafficking poses'
Arthur "Jack" Schubarth was arrested for conspiring with five other people to use tissue and testicles from Marco Polo sheep that were illegally brought into the U.S. to make a larger hybrid sheep.