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Unsurprisingly the sea slug uses its ruffles for the same purpose of increasing surface area [0], albeit for photosynthesis instead of sauce carrying:

> This slug, like other Sacoglossa uses kleptoplasty, a process in which the slug absorbs chloroplasts from the algae it eats, and uses "stolen" cells to photosynthesize sugars. The ruffles of the lettuce sea slug increase the slug's surface area, allowing the cells to absorb more light.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_slug#Diversity_in_sea_slug...

This is counterintuitive to me -- if more surface area means more light absorbed, why are solar panels flat instead of ruffled? Or are they not as flat as they look?

I'm suddenly curious how sea slugs would taste with some marinara.

Not gonna lie, it looks delicious but has kind of an H.R. Giger vibe.

The pasta. Not the sea slug. Though all sea slugs looks like they were made during evolution's goth phase.

It looks like waterfalls, hence the name: cascatelli.

Do you also think spaghetti looks like worms?

Vermicelli translates loosely to "little worms."

they do not, because that's not what their name means

spaghetti = little strings

vermicelli = tiny worms

Where do you think vermi in vermichelli came from?