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Revealed: The surprising reason why scientists named Dolly the Sheep after Dolly Parton

Daily Mail Science and Tech · 26 August 2026 at 10:03

Revealed: The surprising reason why scientists named Dolly the Sheep after Dolly Parton

Musician, actress, philanthropist - Dolly Parton had done it all.

But perhaps her most unusual accolade was having the world's first cloned mammal named after her.

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