A company that claims to have produced five cloned humans but has not provided any evidence has for the first time displayed a photograph of what it says is a cloned baby.
Clonaid said in Brazil that the baby's parents would soon prove that it had the same DNA as its dead, older sibling.
Clonaid is a company linked to the Raelian movement that believes extraterrestrials created mankind.
Previously Clonaid has failed to live up to pledges to give evidence of its cloning claims.
The photograph's presentation was the latest episode in what many scientists say is a hoax to publicize the Raelians.
Clonaid said in December it cloned the first human, 'Eve.'
Rael, the movement's founder, and Clonaid President Brigitte Boisselier showed a computer with a picture of the 3-month-old Japanese baby they said was the third clone.
The picture, to be put on Clonaid's Web site http://www.clonaid.com, showed a normal-looking baby in diapers in a hospital incubator. Its eyes appeared to be bandaged.
Boisselier and Rael, whose real name is Claude Vorilhon, were in Brazil to present Rael's book on cloning.
