Isolated Socotra, 220 miles from mainland Yemen, is home to a panoply of strange plants and animals uniquely adapted to the ...

SANAA – Socotra is not like the rest of Yemen. This group of four islands, the largest one of which is also called Socotra, lies about 500km south of the Yemeni mainland. Home to 60,000 residents, it ...

On a recent trek through Yemen’s Socotra island, local resident Issa al-Rumaili stops to point out a spot in the distance: “In front of us are the ruins of a vast forest of dragon blood trees,” he ...

A look at the surreal landscapes of Socotra, home to some of the most unusual and alien-looking trees on Earth. Known for their unique umbrella-like shapes and remote environment, these ancient trees ...

SOCOTRA, Yemen (AP) — On a windswept plateau high above the Arabian Sea, Sena Keybani cradles a sapling that barely reaches her ankle. The young plant, protected by a makeshift fence of wood and wire, ...

New Delhi: Socotra is a small archipelago of four islands in the Indian Ocean, near the Gulf of Aden. Situated some 250 miles off the coast of Yemen, the largest member of the archipelago, also New ...

SOCOTRA: On a windswept plateau high above the Arabian Sea, Sena Keybani cradles a sapling that barely reaches her ankle. The young plant, protected by a makeshift fence of wood and wire, is a kind of ...

On the other side of the world, in the middle of another ocean, lies a second Galapagos: the remote island of Socotra where more than one third of the 800 or so local plant species are found nowhere ...

It is a very strange island far out in the Arabian Sea, off the coast of Yemen, and is often referred to as the most alien-looking place on earth. This has been accumulated on Socotra, one of a group ...

The photos look like T-Rex is about to charge out of the trees, chasing down prey in the height of dinosaur rule. But although the plants on this mysterious island date back millions of years, the ...