Logically, no dinos were on the ark. they, being the cursed serpents all died either before or at the time of the flood, the cursed short legged belly crawlers and snakes being the cursed offspring hatched from the parent dinos.
Didn't we cover this a few years back? Dinosaurs are birds, not "serpents." I mean I guess if the last time you saw a representation of a dinosaur was
when you had dinner in one you might think that dinosaurs were "belly-crawlers", but for the past thirty years or so we've understood that dinosaurs were active, warm-blooded avians with complex behavior, not lumbering scaly simpletons.
And if snakes are the descendants of dinosaurs (they're not) post-Ark, then how could there have been a snake at the beginning of Genesis?
The pre-flood diet of animals and mankind was vegetarian, there being so much vegetation, fewer, shallower and smaller oceans and a super relatively even temperature globally.
Even from your perspective this can't be true; many of the fossil organisms we dig out of the ground have meat-eating teeth, not plant teeth. Since (in the Ark mythology) those are the remains of pre-Ark species, we know that meat-eating must have predated the Ark.
Having been vegetarians, and likely having an abundance of survival food, including dried food, hay, etc aboard, they would have been disease free and in very good health during the sojourn.
Never talked to a rancher, have you, Buz? Vegetarian livestock get diseases too. Frequently as a result of too-rich food and cramped conditions - exactly as it would have been on your ark.
The record does not mention insects.
Probably because insects were beneath the notice and regard of the ancient-times storytellers that originally spun the story of Noah.
Perhaps God enabled the animals and birds to survive a long hybernating fast during the voyage. After all, he allegedly fed the wandering post-Exodus Israelites with manna from heaven in the wilderness for some forty years.
Manna, as every entomologist knows, is nothing more than the waxy secretions of scale insects:
and it's impossible to see how bug slime has anything to do with hibernation.
Frankly the notion that someone as old as you believes in fairy tales of arks and floods is astounding. You should be embarrassed to put this stuff out there like it's true.