Large flying creature on super earth?
I am working on a habitable planet that orbits around a red dwarf star and it is about 1.5 times bigger and more massive than the Earth. Gravity there is stronger and the atmosphere is thicker.
Now, one of the creatures that inhabits this planet is a large aerial predator that hunts above the savannas. It's a hexapod (six limbs), has two large pair of wings (the front pair being larger than the second) and small hind legs, large chest muscles, bony thin plates of armour from protection against radiation from the star, a relatively small head compared to the rest of its body, and a wingspan of 10 meters.
Is this creature possible? If it is what could explain why it reached such a large size? And if not what might I change in my world to make it possible?
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