diff --git a/src/ImageSharp/Formats/Tga/TgaImageFormatDetector.cs b/src/ImageSharp/Formats/Tga/TgaImageFormatDetector.cs
index 300172f6c..9074b3756 100644
--- a/src/ImageSharp/Formats/Tga/TgaImageFormatDetector.cs
+++ b/src/ImageSharp/Formats/Tga/TgaImageFormatDetector.cs
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ namespace SixLabors.ImageSharp.Formats.Tga
     public sealed class TgaImageFormatDetector : IImageFormatDetector
     {
         /// <inheritdoc/>
-        public int HeaderSize => TgaConstants.FileHeaderLength;
+        public int HeaderSize => 16;
 
         /// <inheritdoc/>
         public IImageFormat DetectFormat(ReadOnlySpan<byte> header)
@@ -23,15 +23,38 @@ namespace SixLabors.ImageSharp.Formats.Tga
         {
             if (header.Length >= this.HeaderSize)
             {
-                // There are no magic bytes in a tga file, so at least the image type
-                // and the colormap type in the header will be checked for a valid value.
+                // There are no magic bytes in the first few bytes of a tga file,
+                // so we try to figure out if its a valid tga by checking for valid tga header bytes.
+
+                // The color map type should be either 0 or 1, other values are not valid.
                 if (header[1] != 0 && header[1] != 1)
                 {
                     return false;
                 }
 
+                // The third byte is the image type.
                 var imageType = (TgaImageType)header[2];
-                return imageType.IsValid();
+                if (!imageType.IsValid())
+                {
+                    return false;
+                }
+
+                // If the color map typ is zero, all bytes of the color map specification should also be zeros.
+                if (header[1] == 0)
+                {
+                    if (header[3] != 0 || header[4] != 0 || header[5] != 0 || header[6] != 0 || header[7] != 0)
+                    {
+                        return false;
+                    }
+                }
+
+                // The height or the width of the image should not be zero.
+                if ((header[12] == 0 && header[13] == 0) || (header[14] == 0 && header[15] == 0))
+                {
+                    return false;
+                }
+
+                return true;
             }
 
             return false;
diff --git a/tests/ImageSharp.Tests/Formats/Tga/TgaFileHeaderTests.cs b/tests/ImageSharp.Tests/Formats/Tga/TgaFileHeaderTests.cs
index 2b0b088a1..a305e58b7 100644
--- a/tests/ImageSharp.Tests/Formats/Tga/TgaFileHeaderTests.cs
+++ b/tests/ImageSharp.Tests/Formats/Tga/TgaFileHeaderTests.cs
@@ -1,34 +1,54 @@
 // Copyright (c) Six Labors and contributors.
 // Licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, Version 3.
 
+using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
 
 using SixLabors.ImageSharp.Formats;
-
+using SixLabors.ImageSharp.Formats.Tga;
 using Xunit;
 
 namespace SixLabors.ImageSharp.Tests.Formats.Tga
 {
     public class TgaFileHeaderTests
     {
-        private static readonly byte[] Data =
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData(new byte[] { 0, 0, 15, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 250, 0, 195, 0, 32, 8 })] // invalid tga image type.
+        [InlineData(new byte[] { 0, 3, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 250, 0, 195, 0, 32, 8 })] // invalid colormap type.
+        [InlineData(new byte[] { 0, 0, 1, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 250, 0, 195, 0, 32, 8 })] // valid colormap type (0), but colomap spec bytes should all be zero.
+        [InlineData(new byte[] { 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 250, 0, 195, 0, 32, 8 })] // valid colormap type (0), but colomap spec bytes should all be zero.
+        [InlineData(new byte[] { 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 7, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 250, 0, 195, 0, 32, 8 })] // valid colormap type (0), but colomap spec bytes should all be zero.
+        [InlineData(new byte[] { 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 6, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 250, 0, 195, 0, 32, 8 })] // valid colormap type (0), but colomap spec bytes should all be zero.
+        [InlineData(new byte[] { 0, 0, 1, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 250, 0, 195, 0, 32, 8 })] // valid colormap type (0), but colomap spec bytes should all be zero.
+        [InlineData(new byte[] { 0, 0, 0, 12, 106, 80, 32, 32, 13, 10, 135, 10, 0, 0, 0, 20, 102, 116 })] // jp2 image header
+        [InlineData(new byte[] { 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 195, 0, 32, 8 })] // invalid width
+        [InlineData(new byte[] { 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 250, 0, 0, 0, 32, 8 })] // invalid height
+        public void ImageLoad_WithNoValidTgaHeaderBytes_Throws_UnknownImageFormatException(byte[] data)
         {
-                                                  0,
-                                                  0,
-                                                  15 // invalid tga image type
-        };
-
-        private MemoryStream Stream { get; } = new MemoryStream(Data);
+            using var stream = new MemoryStream(data);
 
-        [Fact]
-        public void ImageLoad_WithInvalidImageType_Throws_UnknownImageFormatException()
-        {
             Assert.Throws<UnknownImageFormatException>(() =>
             {
-                using (Image.Load(Configuration.Default, this.Stream, out IImageFormat _))
+                using (Image.Load(Configuration.Default, stream, out IImageFormat _))
                 {
                 }
             });
         }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData(new byte[] { 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 250, 0, 195, 0, 32, 8 }, 250, 195, TgaBitsPerPixel.Pixel32)]
+        [InlineData(new byte[] { 26, 1, 9, 0, 0, 0, 1, 16, 0, 0, 0, 0, 128, 0, 128, 0, 8, 0 }, 128, 128, TgaBitsPerPixel.Pixel8)]
+        [InlineData(new byte[] { 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 220, 0, 220, 0, 16, 0 }, 220, 220, TgaBitsPerPixel.Pixel16)]
+        [InlineData(new byte[] { 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 124, 0, 124, 0, 24, 32 }, 124, 124, TgaBitsPerPixel.Pixel24)]
+        public void Identify_WithValidData_Works(byte[] data, int width, int height, TgaBitsPerPixel bitsPerPixel)
+        {
+            using var stream = new MemoryStream(data);
+
+            IImageInfo info = Image.Identify(stream);
+            TgaMetadata tgaData = info.Metadata.GetTgaMetadata();
+            Assert.Equal(bitsPerPixel, tgaData.BitsPerPixel);
+            Assert.Equal(width, info.Width);
+            Assert.Equal(height, info.Height);
+        }
     }
 }