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Two examples from short stories freely available online. Kesri-Sequoia II from Jay Lake's West to East. An otherwise-earthlike planet with a superrotating atmosphere like venus. Aka, all hurricane-force winds, all the time, always blowing the same direction. The local life is adapted, being...

Hella from David Gerrold's novel of the same name. Local life is all capable of biochemically synthesizing the equivalent of spider silk proteins and consequentially is insanely durable, with kaiju-sized organisms whose bones have the tensile strength to hypothetically support space elevators...

Nominating... Henders Island from Fragment by Warren Fahy. Lost world ecosystem on an isolated south pacific island where evolution has been taking an entirely different course from the mainland since essentially the cambrian period. Major deathworldy aspects, there aren't actually that many...