Country music icon Dolly Parton recently revealed her reaction to finding out that Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned ...

Music legend Dolly Parton revealed why she was 'flattered' to learn a sheep clone was named in her honor nearly 30 years ago.

Of course, Parton is kidding. Regardless, Dolly the sheep was born from the same cells, but (presumably) did not share a ...

Jon Morgan/CBS/Getty;Getty In 1997, scientists successfully cloned a sheep and named the animal Dolly after country legend Dolly Parton — for a very specific reason. The "Jolene" singer ...

Nearly 30 years after the scientific feat, Dolly Parton has said she was “flattered” to find out the Dolly the Sheep clone was named in honour of her famous cleavage as scientists used mammary glands ...

"I was sorry when she died, though I don’t want be cloned myself," said Parton of the first sheep to be duplicated by ...

Dolly added: “I was sorry when she died, "though I don’t want be cloned myself. “I want to get on out of here when I can. We already get a lot of Dolly lookalikes, a lot of Dolly drag queens.

Dolly Parton was “flattered” to find out Dolly the Sheep was named in honour of her famous cleavage. The country music icon, 78, got a jokey nod from scientists in 1997 after they used mammary ...

Nearly 30 years after the scientific feat, Dolly Parton has said she was “flattered” to find out the Dolly the Sheep clone ...