We have long believed that insects had to float through the flood the best they could on vegetation mats; they were excluded from the ark on the criterion of having not the "breath of life".
X-ray microscopy has recently revealed that insects do indeed breathe.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/01/030124075220.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/01/24/bugs.breathe.ap/index.html
Welcome aboard, bugs! Now, why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitos?
X-ray microscopy has recently revealed that insects do indeed breathe.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/01/030124075220.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/01/24/bugs.breathe.ap/index.html
Welcome aboard, bugs! Now, why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitos?