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Dolly, the Finn Dorset sheep famously cloned by Ian Wilmut and his team at the Roslin Institute, lived for nearly seven years. She was born on July 5, 1996, and was euthanized on February 14, 2003, after being diagnosed with a progressive lung disease.12