The skeptics prefer to believe that the little bacilli were simply contaminating modern bacteria that just happen to also live in Dominican bees and just happened to enter Cano's sterile chamber in California. These scientists will have even more reason to be skeptical when they read the most recent paper from the Cano lab. The latest work describes the isolation from amber of an ancient version of a bacterial species called Staphylococcus. Staphylococci don't form spores, so any revived cells must have survived for millions of years in the absence of a protective protein shell. If true, then the survival powers of DNA are much greater than previously realized.
Mites are arthropods, just like spiders.
At first glance, mite eggs resemble considerably smaller versions of the eggs you eat for breakfast. Mite eggs, however, come in little packets like peas in a pod, and can survive very harsh environmental conditions. If a chicken lays an egg in a hole in late fall and forgets about it, the result will be a dead, frozen chicken egg. But mites, like other land-living arthropods, have eggs that survive the winter. Arthropods make their own brand of antifreeze somewhat similar to the antifreeze used in radiators to keep car engines from freezing.