New emojis were approved as part of Unicode 9 on June 21, 2016.
UPDATE Dec 2016. Now added to iOS: https://youtu.be/mD_wxnohKtk
This video shows every one of the 72 new emojis on the list. There's a croissant, a duck, fingers crossed, a potato, and more.
These sample images were created in the "Apple style" by Emojipedia, showing how we think they might look. We hope you like them!
Unicode 9 Emoji List: http://emojipedia.org/unicode-9.0/
More about this update: http://blog.emojipedia.org/unicode-9-0-released-with-72-new-emojis/