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 dragon’s ...

Between Africa and Arabia lies an island of rare biological oddities—one that’s buffeted now by development, cyclones, and civil war. The Socotra dragon's blood tree, Dracaena cinnabari, can live a ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Indian Ocean, the Yemeni island of Socotra is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. More than a third of the plant species on the island don’t exist anywhere else on the planet. That ...

The sun rises between the umbrella-shaped branches of a dragon’s blood tree, casting golden light over the alien-like landscape of Socotra. The tree’s red sap, once prized as a natural medicine, is ...

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 ...

Two hundred miles off the coast of Yemen is Socotra, a remote island known as the jewel of the Arabia, where a species of otherworldly tree known as dragon’s blood has bloomed for millenia. With its ...

Socotra Island is often dubbed the 'most alien looking place on Earth' A REMOTE island in the Indian Ocean which was cut off from the rest of the mainland boats the weirdest landscape in the world.

In the Indian Ocean, the Yemeni island of Socotra is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. More than a third of the plant species on the island don’t exist anywhere else on the planet. That ...