In the second novel, "The Lost World", Grant is only mentioned. Richard Levine tells Ian Malcolm that he asked Grant about rumors that InGen was cloning dinosaurs; according to Levine, Grant said the rumors were "absurd". Later on, Ed James mentions that Grant is on a leave of absence and lecturing in Paris about his theory that "Tyrannosaurus" was a scavenger. Grant is mentioned a third time when Levine criticizes Grant's theory that a "Tyrannosaurus" could not function in rainy climates.