How can you reduce the effect of wind speed through environment or evolution?

My planet has an atmospheric density 12x that of earth with 0.8 Earth Gravity. Someone pointed out a while back that this would increase the wind strength proportionally. Now this is a problem as a light breeze on my planet would be comparable to hurricanes on Earth.

Firstly, how much can expected wind speeds be organically reduced by?

The thick atmosphere would be efficient at regulating heat so I could have the planet orbit further away from the star to reduce temperature, other than that I can't think of anything else that doesn't compromise the air pressure.

Secondly, how well could Earth-like species adapt to the wind strength?

The creatures are very Earth-like in which amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds and dinosaurs all have similar counterparts, although they are hexapodal in origin. 'Mammals' and 'Birds' lost the 3rd limb set as have many groups of 'dinosaurs'. Gigantism is also very prevalent. I know I'm kind of answering my own question but plants would be stronger, small animals may burrow whilst forests could be very dense to shelter for larger animals and the true megafauna wouldn't be too effected.

Would the environment prove to extreme for earth-like animals to evolve?

posted over 7 years ago

Zac Walton‭

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