Just when you think science has the basic facts about Planet Earth all organized and categorized....

They discover a new island off of Sicily. Actually, it's the tip of a volcano that has been submerged for over a millenia. It did make a a brief appearance almost two hundred years ago:

The last emergence on July 2, 1831, caused months of international wrangling with four nations making territorial claims including Britain, Spain and the Bourbon court of Sicily.
The rock, which rose some 213 feet above the surface and had a circumference of about 3 miles, emerged for six months, giving the British time to claim it as Graham Island, while Sicily's King Ferdinand II called it Ferdinandea.

And if that's not cool enough, scientists announce that a new mammal species has been identified in Australia. It's a species - or maybe two species - of mountain brushtail possum.

As John Brunner wrote in Stand on Zanzibar "it's a happening world."