Montana rancher paid $4,200 to clone a dead sheep and launched a farm of super hybrids worth up to $550,000

• 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 hybrid offspring were sold to game farms, possibly for hunting.

An 80-year-old Montana rancher, Arthur "Jack" Schubarth, had a lucrative business going until authorities got wind of it.

For the last five years, or so, Schubarth has been selling sheep for tens of thousands of dollars.