Atlantis Grant, aka Laney, never had a normal life. From her name to her background she was bizarre. Laney's mother died in childbirth and her father, Alan Grant, was forced to raise her. He named her Atlantis after the great city. Laney spent her entire life living on dig sites, being homeschooled by her father and later by her father's girlfriend, Ellie. By the age of thirteen Laney knew every prehistoric creature there ever was. It was to no one's surprise that she later went to school to become a paleontologist like her father.

At the age of only seventeen Laney had went to the first ever dinosaur island with her father and Ellie. The memories of the island followed her and like her father she dove right back into her work. At the age of twenty three Laney went on the second island with her father and once more barely survived the horrors of real dinosaurs.

This time, after coming back from the second island, Laney didn't want to just dive back into her work or simply ignore the press always hunting her down. Laney wanted to be away from the memories of the island and that took her to England.

She went to England to escape her past and to just deal with fossils, but of course she never stood a chance. Dinosaurs followed her like bad luck and so at the age of twenty five she discovered an Anomaly with her coworker Nick Cutter and friend Stephen Hart. It was from that moment on that her life changed.